ALASKA-CANADA BOUNDARY COMMISSION, NO VOTE TAKEN YET, NO USE FOR CANAL, KING'S DAUGHTERS, ITHACA WATER, AND HENS ARE PROFITABLE

 

Elihu Root.

Lord Roberts.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, October 16, 1903.

ALASKAN COMMISSION.

London Advertiser Says American Case So Conceded.

DINNER OF PILGRIM SOCIETY.

Notable Gathering of Englishmen, Americans and Canadians—Speech of Lord Alverstone, Lord Lansdowne and Commissioners Turner and Sifton—Root on Army Reform.

   London, Oct. 16.—The Morning Advertiser announces that it regrets to learn from a source which it regards as beyond question that the decision of the Alaska boundary tribunal virtually concedes the American case.

   The Morning Advertiser, which appears to be thoroughly satisfied with the reliability of its statements, says the news will be received in Canada with consternation. It gives a map and detailed explanation showing how the decision will affect Canada and adds that those who have followed the arguments have been thoroughly satisfied with Hon. Clifford Sifton's preparation and presentation of the case.

Dinner of Pilgrims' Society.

   London, Oct. 16.—The dinner given by the Pilgrims' society to the Alaskan Boundary commission at Claridge's hotel last night proved the most notable assemblage of Englishmen, Americans and Canadians ever brought together in London. In addition to the members of the commission, the British cabinet ministers, the American ambassador and the most prominent representatives of English public life were present.

   Field Marshal Lord Roberts presided. On his right sat Ambassador Choate and on his left Lord Chief Justice Alverstone. Lord Lansdowne, Sir Louis Jette, Sir Stanley Clarke, the king's equerry, and Secretary Elihu Root sat at the same table, while the other guests were distributed at small tables around the room.

   Lord Roberts proposed the health of King Edward and President Roosevelt in a united toast. He then proposed "The Alaska Boundary Commission," to which Lord Alverstone replied, saying that the meeting of the commissioners would stand as a monument of the feeling evinced in America and Great Britain to settle their differences by a common sense method.

   Former United States Senator Turner and the Hon. Clifford Sifton, Canadian interior minister, answered for their respective countries, the latter saying that no greater crime could be conceived against human nature than trouble between Great Britain and the United States.

   Proposing the health of the Anglo-Saxon race, Foreign Secretary Lord Lansdowne claimed that it had done more than any other nationality to promote the arts and literature and just and equal government. He predicted that the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race would be found working shoulder to shoulder in the future, saying that the countries must have our little differences from time to time, but an appeal to force was unthinkable.

Greater Than Venezuelan Case.

   His lordship referred to the fact that eight countries were joining in the Venezuelan arbitration and the pleasure derived from signing the Anglo-French arbitration treaty, but the Alaskan tribunal, he declared, was by far the most important example of that principle. Lord Lansdowne proceeded:

   "In whatever part of the world the Anglo-Saxon race may be distributed there rises a prayer that the present tribunal may find a final and friendly solution of the Alaskan difficulty, so that whoever hereafter holds the office I am unworthy to fill will be able to put his hand down and say we have or we have not this part of the North American continent without discord and without discussion."

   Secretary Root closed the dinner with a notable speech proposing the health of Lord Roberts as the commander-in-chief of the British army. Mr. Root referred to the endeavor to promote army reform on both sides of the Atlantic.

   The American people, he said, had inherited from Great Britain the ingrained distrust of a standing army. Mr. Root said that by the creation of a general staff he hoped the United States had solved the problem of reconciling civil and military expert opinion which had been the cause of much difficulty and he trusted that Great Britain would be similarly fortunate.

   There cannot be a more genuine and hearty feeling of good will than exists among the people of the United States for Canada he said.

   After remarking that Canada had learned how colonies should be properly treated by the lesson of the American revolution, Mr. Root said he was proud to put the American army side by side with the British army.

   Lord Roberts briefly thanked Secretary Root and the proceedings then ended.

 

NO VOTE YET TAKEN.

Report Merely Forecasts What is Believed will be the Result.

   London, Oct. 16.—John W. Foster, counsel for the United States before the Alaskan Boundary commission, denies the report published by the Morning Advertiser that the judges had decided the question in favor of America. No vote has yet been taken. Mr. Foster says the case will probably not be decided before next week.

   The Advertiser announcement, however, reflects what is generally believed will be the final result.

   The St. James Gazette this afternoon, while denying that a decision has been reached, says:

   "There is, however, growing pessimism in Canadian circles. The chief matter at issue in the case is possession of a tract on the Klondike gold field border, in which the cities of Dyea and Skagway are embraced. These places, settled by gold hunters from the United States, have been under American control by the terms of the modus vivendi.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

No Use for Canal.

   If the barge canal was in actual operation, shippers living close to the canal would doubtless make some use of it where the article shipped was not of a perishable character and where the time when the article reached its destination was of no importance. The conditions mentioned greatly limit the availability of the canal to shippers living in close proximity to it. But there is a further limitation, viz: the fact that the canal cannot operate for more than seven months in each year at best.

   Why should people living remote from the line of the canal burden themselves with the construction of a barge canal, even if it might benefit those living in its immediate vicinity?

   Manifestly the people of this state do not need this canal. There are now operating between Buffalo and New York four great railways, viz: the New York Central, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the Lehigh Valley, and the Erie. These great roads, with their connecting lines and feeders, together with many other smaller roads interlace the state, so that nearly every town and hamlet in the state is in close touch with some road willing and anxious to handle any merchandize requiring shipment.

   It should be borne in mind that nearly every product that the farmers of this state have to ship are of a perishable character, and therefore should be sent by the most expeditious route. If it is claimed that the middleman, and not the farmer, usually handles the products that the farmer has to sell, then we say the middleman would be influenced by the same considerations, and ship from railroad stations most accessible to the farmer of whom he buys, and the product, whether hay, cabbage, potatoes or otherwise, would be billed direct to the market had in view and, breaking bulk would in almost every instance be avoided. The middleman watches the market and when he deems the market satisfactory, he places his goods upon it at the earliest moment, thus getting an early return for his investment.

   In almost every town dealers are shipping live stock to market, but the necessity of getting them speedily to their destination and in good condition would preclude their using the canal, even if they lived in a canal town. Why should farmers, middleman and merchants be taxed to pay for a barge canal that they could not afford to use, even if it was in operation? No one has or can give a sufficient reason for burdening the state with the cost of a barge canal.

 

THE KING'S DAUGHTERS

Hold the Closing Session of the State Convention.

   The annual state convention of The King's Daughters was brought to a successful termination last evening after a session of three days. The convention was one of the most interesting and instructive that has been held in the history of the order. There was a large number of delegates present and every session was well attended.

   Just before the close of the afternoon session yesterday the result of the election was announced and the following offices named for the coming year: Mrs. D. H. Laird of Woodville, state secretary; Mrs. Randall of Avoca, recording secretary; and Mrs. Cotton of Waterville, treasurer.

   The session last evening was opened by devotional exercises conducted by Rev. Robert Clements of Cortland.

   The committee on resolutions next reported. The resolutions were in the form of a vote of thanks to the people of Cortland who had entertained them; to the First Baptist church; to the Cortland clergymen and to the officers of the convention.

   Miss Baldwin of Buffalo delighted the audience with a highly pleasing solo, after which Mrs. O. H. Laird, the state secretary, made her annual address. She took as her subject, "The Influence of a Life."

   The address was full of advice to the visiting delegates and contained many thoughts and ideas that they could carry home with them for the various circles which they represented. She said in part: "Each and every one of us casts a shadow. This shadow is our own influence and counts either for good or for evil and shows what we ourselves really are. We cannot live without influencing others. Every one with whom we come in contact is affected by us in some way. We fail to realize the tremendous power of our influence which is all the more potent because we are unconscious of it. Our unconscious lives and acts count for far more than all the words we can ever utter. What are we as King's Daughters in our secret souls? I wish we might have a heart searching time and really know ourselves. Many of us instead of praying for power pray only that we may be clean. Let us realize that we cannot preach any more of Christ than we have in us, and only Christlike character will win this Christlike power."

   Mrs. Laird then referred to the lives of Rev. Dr. Francis Bottome and Dr. Frank Bottome as examples of the influence of a noble life. She closed with a touching tribute to Mrs. Bottome, the "Mother" of the order, and the International president.

   Mrs. Bottome conducted a consecration service, after which the benediction was pronounced by Rev. Robert Clements.

   The next convention will be held in Jamestown.

 

THE ITHACA WATER.

Dr. Chamot Differs from the Board of Health.

   Notwithstanding the declarations of the Ithaca board of health that the water proceeding from the new filtering plant is still bad, Dr. Chamot, the expert, has submitted a report of examinations of samples of water taken at the Water Company's filter plant on five successive days last week, showing an average efficiency for the five days of 99.73 per cent. In a letter to a citizen Dr. Chamot, according to the Ithaca Democrat, says:

   "In my opinion the water from the East Hill reservoir is unquestionably safe."

   The same paper also says: "The analysis of the city water purification plant shows between 98 and 99 per cent proficiency for all filters now in operation, and an entire absence of fecal organism, and the water is pronounced pure and wholesome and absolutely fit for domestic purposes."

   The Ithaca Journal is highly indignant at this action of the board of health and says:

   "It marks the culmination of a policy of passion, prejudice and crass ignorance never before known in the history of our little city.

   "It stamps the men who voted for this resolution as totally unfit for the responsible place to which they have been appointed.

   "We have the spectacle of sworn officials of the city deliberately conspiring to ruin the business interests of this city in order that they may do some injury to the Water Works company.

   "We have the spectacle of city officials refusing to give an analysis of the water they sell to the citizens, and refusing to accept the analysis of Chemist Chamot, of the water from the filtration plant."

   Dr. Chamot, who pronounced the water now supplied "perfectly safe for all household purposes," is assistant professor of chemistry in Cornell university and has been recognized as one competent to speak of the purity of the "water supply of Ithaca. Why his evidence should be practically condemned as incompetent at this time is difficult to understand.

   The turn of affairs is certainly unfortunate. Ithaca has already suffered terribly in wealth and reputation, and just when relief from previous unfortunate conditions seemed assured the action of the health board is, to say the least, a sad setback.

   If the water now being supplied Ithacans is not pure under the new arrangement it is time the board of health is doing something to make it pure.

 

Hens are Profitable.

   As a result of an experiment with three flocks aggregating 1,250 hens, the Cornell university station found the average cost of feeding a hen per year to be 99 cents. The average value of eggs at the market rate exceeded the cost of food by $1.31. The total yearly production per hen averaged 1,286 eggs, and the average cost per dozen of eggs was 92 cents.—Ithaca Democrat.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Tomorrow is the last day to register. No registration, no vote. The registration booths will also be open until 9 o'clock tonight. Register tonight. Don't wait for tomorrow.

   —Matt Weeks of Cortland R. F. D., No. 5, has some Rhode Island Greening apples this year which are marvelous in size. Two of them selected at random from a crate weighed three-quarters of a pound each.

   The Cortland Science club will hold its regular meeting tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the Hatch library. The speaker will be A. J. Murray and his subject will be "The Great Lakes." The paper of the previous meeting will be reviewed by Prof. F. R. Parker.

   —The new display advertisements today are—E. H. Seferian, Oriental rugs, page 5; Opera House, "A Little Outcast," page 5; S. Simmons,  Great clothing sale, page 8; R. W. Mitchell, Best meats, page 5; Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Teas, coffees, etc., page 8; Randall & Rauch, Concert night, page 6; Syracuse Trust Co., Bank account, page 8.

 

 

SUNDAY FILLER: RUSSIAN WARSHIPS HELPED TO SAVE THE UNION

 

TAMMANY DEMOCRATS RATIFY, NEW CANAL TREATY, EXPLANATION, INDEPENDENT TICKET, AND KING'S DAUGHTERS

 

George B. McClellan, Jr.

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, October 15, 1903.

DEMOCRATS RATIFY.

Tammany Hall Thronged For First Great Rally.

HIGH TRIBUTE PAID TO GROUT.

Former Senator Towne Argued That Non-Partisan Government is a Failure—Colonel McClellan Argued That the Fusion Movement Was Distinctly Republican.

   New York, Oct. 15.—Tammany Hall was thronged last night at the first great meeting of the city campaign held to ratify the Democratic platform and nominations. Former Comptroller Meyers, chairman, paid a high tribute to Comptroller Grout. Grout and President Fornes were enthusiastically welcomed.

   Former United States Senator Towne in a speech argued that nonpartisan government was a failure.

   "If there is an honest desire to elect a non-partisan candidate," he said, "why should they object to any one endorsing him? But consider just what sort of a non-partisan campaign this is. In the first place, there is that unequalled prestidigitateur who has had control of the Republican machine for a generation. Then there is that statesman who presides over the administration at Albany with one eye upon the machine and both eyes on the unequalled prestidigitateur aforesaid. And also that strenuous cosmopolite at Washington who is riding full tilt for election as president next year."

   Mr. Towne paid a tribute to Colonel McClellan. William McAdoo, formerly assistant secretary of the navy, said: "We are tonight fighting the battle for the restoration of Democratic government in the United States." He believed, he said, that Mr. Chamberlain would succeed in converting the British empire to protection and it was only by having the Democratic party returned to power at Washington that the British government could be thwarted in its effort to injure American trade.

   Mr. Grout was greeted with uproarious applause. He declared that he had no apology to offer for any act of his. He declared that Mayor Low was not non-partisan but the close ally of Governor Odell.

   Mr. Fornes followed and then Colonel McClellan was introduced and received a great ovation.

   Colonel McClellan argued that the fusion movement was distinctly Republican; that the present city administration is not non-partisan and that the present fight is between two great parties. He criticized the new state excise law as one which increased the city's revenue only 12 1/2 per cent while the revenue of the state was increased 125 per cent.

   "The city will only receive about half a million dollars more under the new law than it did under the old, yet there will be distributed among the Republican strongholds of the state nearly three and a half million dollars more—paid by the people of New York—than was paid during the year 1902," he said.

   Addresses were also made by John F. Ahearn, candidate for borough president, Mitchell L. Erlanger, candidate for sheriff, and John J. Delaney.

 

McClellan Refused to Speak.

   New York, Oct. 15.—George B, McClellan, Democratic nominee for mayor, refused to address the big mass meeting of Brooklyn Democrats scheduled to be held in Brooklyn on October 20, unless the nominations of Grout and Fornes are endorsed in Brooklyn as well as his own. Mr. McClellan had been invited by John L. Shea of Brooklyn to address the meeting. Mr. Shea refused to agree to Mr. McClellan's stipulation. Shea is a Hugh McLaughlin lieutenant in the Brooklyn Democracy.

 

Presidente Jose Manuel Marroquin.

NEW CANAL TREATY.

Progress of the Bill Authorizing President Marroquin to Negotiate.

   Bogota, Colombia, Oct. 15.—The senate committee charged with drawing up a bill authorizing the president of the republic to negotiate a new canal treaty with the United States has presented the project to the senate. It provides that the latter must approve or disapprove the extension of the concession for six years granted to the new Panama Canal company in 1900. If this is disapproved Colombia will reimburse $1,000,000 to the company, with interest, and will take possession of the canal works next year, in which case this republic will then be able to negotiate a new treaty with the United States.

   If the extension of the concession is approved by the senate the new Panama Canal company will have until the year 1910 to fulfill its obligations.

   The senate will take up the bill on Monday next.

   It is pointed out that authorizations given to the executive by the senate to negotiate treaties are valueless, as the executive, according to the constitution, can negotiate treaties without authorization from the senate and present them to congress for approval, and any law amending the constitution to this or to any other effect must be sanctioned by two consecutive congresses.

 

THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

Germany Angry Because Italy Flirts With France.

   Berlin, Oct. 15.—Germany is greatly irritated by the visit of King Victor Emanuel of Italy to France. A rapprochement between France and Italy would be a blow to the triple alliance, which is fast becoming little more than a phrase. The newspapers comment on Victor's visit in adverse strain. The Neuste Nacbrichten describes Italy as an unfaithful wife, married to Germany and conducting a liaison with France.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

What Is It All About?

   All eyes are now turned to the eastern hemisphere and news is eagerly awaited from Manchuria to see when the expected hostilities break out between Russia and Japan. There is such a succession of steps leading up to the present moment that one looks back to find the beginning, to discover the actual cause of the trouble. The Elmira Advertiser gives the following accurate review of the situation which may be read with profit by every one.

   In the early days of the civil war, when Lieutenant Fairfax took from a British ship Messrs. Mason and Slidell, the two Confederate commissioners who were bound for England to enlist, if possible, the material influence and sympathy for the southern states, and when the world looked forward to English interference in the struggle then going on against the government of the United States, Russia sent a fleet that anchored off New York harbor and another that steamed into the Golden Gate. They came under sealed orders, to be opened in event of hostilities on the part of England and which, if the facts of history are correctly recorded, directed the officers in command to report for orders to Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States. The arrival of the two fleets was notice to England that she must keep her hands off. Had it not been for the friendly attitude of Russia at that time, and had the South received the substantial assistance hoped for from England, it is possible that the map of North America would have undergone a decided change.

   Ever since that occasion Russia has given many manifestations of her friendship for the United States and official relations between the two countries have been most cordial. It will be somewhat embarrassing, therefore, for this country to side against Russia in the difficulty now pending with Japan. And yet Russia has not kept faith in the Manchurian matter. She gave a promissory note and failed to pay it. She promised to evacuate Manchuria and did not do so. Indeed, the circumstances are decidedly aggravating, as will be seen from a review of the record.

   On April 8, 1902, Russia formally agreed to evacuate Manchuria in three stages. She was to evacuate the southern part of Sheng-King, including New Chwang and Moukden, within six months, or by Oct. 8, 1902; the rest of Sheng-King and Kirin in a second six months, or by April 8, 1903, and Ho-Lung, the remainder of Manchuria, in a third six months or by Oct. 8, 1903. This engagement was not fulfilled. No serious attempt to fulfill it appears to have been made. But about a year after the making of it, when it should have been two-thirds fulfilled, Russia renewed her promise to evacuate Sheng-King and Kirin, but not Ho-Lung, if China would agree to certain newly prescribed conditions, conspicuous among which were that no foreigners but Russians should be employed in Manchuria, and that no new Manchurian ports should be opened to commerce or any more foreign consuls be admitted to those provinces.

   Against these demands, which were in defiance of the treaty rights of other nations and would have made China a vassal of Russia, there was almost worldwide protest, and Russia saw fit quickly to withdraw them. Russia still neglected, however, to begin evacuation upon one pretext and another. Finally, about a month ago, Russia again promised to get out on Oct. 8. She did not. Her reason is that China has not complied with the new conditions demanded, which she really had no right to impose. The purport of these demands was that Russian goods should be admitted to China at a lower rate of duty than those of any other country. China, of course, in view of the new treaty just negotiated with the United States, could not accede to these demands without repudiating her own obligations with other nations.

   Along with these facts it should be recalled that Japan, in 1894, compelled China at the end of a brief but spirited war, to cede a portion of Manchuria. It is this territory that Russia has squatted upon. After nine years Japan and Russia have now come to the parting of the ways of diplomacy. Japan wants Manchuria and an open door. Russia wants Manchuria to herself. She offers Japan a piece of Corea, which Japan can not and ought not to accept.

   It would seem, therefore, in spite of the amicable and even intimate relations that have heretofore existed between the United States and Russia, that this country can do nothing else in event of war than to give at least its moral support to little Japan.

 

INDEPENDENT TICKET.

William Kennedy to Run Alone in the Fifth Ward.

AN ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY.

His Certificate as the Regular Nominee of the Democratic Party Not Filed With the County Clerk—Some One Connected With Democratic Ward Caucus Forgot—Legal Date Had Passed—Eleventh Hour Hustle to Get Him in as an Independent Candidate—New Ticket to be Called Independent Democratic-Republican Ticket—Emblem is a Silk Hat.

   The Democratic leaders in the Fifth ward of this city were thrown into conniption fits at about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon by the discovery that through the neglect of some one the name of William Kennedy had not been filed as the candidate of the Democratic party for alderman in that ward. The filing of the names of candidates is usually done by the chairman or secretary of a caucus or convention, according as they may agree among themselves. The case is almost without precedent where a candidate files his own name.

   The election law requires that the name of candidates of a regular party organization shall be filed with the county clerk at least thirty and not more than forty days in advance of election. The last day possible to file party nominations was Saturday, Oct. 3.

   Mr. Kennedy himself chanced to be the one to discover the omission. While chancing to pass the county clerk's office it occurred to him to call in and see if it was necessary for him to do anything in person, and then and there learned that no one had filed anything for him and that the time was several days past.

   He started off in hot haste to consult with his party leaders. Yesterday was the last day upon which an independent nomination could be filed, and that must be by petition of one hundred voters, each of whom must sign a petition and acknowledge his signature before a notary public. Already it was time for the county clerk's office to be closed for the day, but County Clerk Patrick kindly agreed to hold the office open and receive a certificate by petition if it could be secured before midnight.

   At once four men, each accompanied by a notary public, set out to obtain signatures. Democrats were rounded up in every part of the district. Ward politicians and friends of Mr. Kennedy exerted themselves to the utmost and when the round up was completed, and the four men who had been sent out summed up their labors late in the evening, it was found that 126 signatures had been obtained and that even if the petition was not made until the eleventh hour there would be an independent Democratic nominee for alderman in the Fifth ward.

   It was decided to call the new ticket the Independent Democratic-Republican ticket and it will have a column all by itself on the ballot. The emblem selected is an up-to-date 1903 silk hat.

   Had the matter gone a half hour longer last night the county clerk's office would have been closed for the day and Mr. Kennedy would have had to postpone his investigations till today and would not have known till today that his name had not been filed and then it would have been too late to have come in even as an independent candidate,

   Mr. Kennedy would not have been in the slightest degree responsible for negligence if his name had been omitted, for it was not his business to file the nominations. But now that he succeeded in getting in with a silk hat upon his head he will doubtless begin to look about him to see who was responsible for leaving him out of his party column.

 

THE KING'S DAUGHTERS.

Much Interest Manifested in the State Convention.

   The annual convention of The King's Daughters of New York State, now in session in this city, will be brought to a close this evening after a most successful session. The number of delegates that arrived yesterday brought the number up to 129, besides the large number of quests that are present. The sessions are very interesting and continue to grow more and more so. All are well attended, especially the evening sessions. The reports of the various counties and separate organizations show that the order is growing rapidly and that excellent work is being done by them.   

   The session last evening was a most interesting one.

   Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. U. S. Milburn. Addresses were made by Mrs. Margaret Bottome, international president of the order, and Mrs. B. C. Whitney of Detroit, a member of the Central council. Both addresses were attentively listened to and contained many excellent thoughts.

   This morning the opening exercises were conducted by Mrs. E. W. Addison of Seneca Falls. The forenoon was taken up by the reports of circles and routine business.

   The afternoon session was opened by devotional exercises conducted by Mrs. C. G. Bamber of Lockport. Miss Anna A. Wheeler then gave a report of the interstate conference.

   This was followed by a paper on the "Benefits of the Organizations," by Mrs. Geo. L. Michelback of Binghamton. Miss Elsie Laird of Woodville read a paper on "The King's Children," which was followed by a paper on "Work by the King's Sons," by Mrs. A. H. Evans of New York.

   This evening Miss Baldwin of Buffalo will sing a solo; Mrs. David H. Laird of Woodville will deliver an address. Consecration services will be conducted by Mrs. Bottome, the international president.

 

WAS SHE STOLEN?

Fine Jersey Cow Mysteriously Absent from Geo. Peck's Farm.

   On Saturday night, Sept. 19, says the Marathon Independent, a thoroughbred Jersey cow belonging to George Peck of that village, and kept on his farm south-east of the village, was in the herd. Sunday morning following she had disappeared as positively as if the earth had opened and swallowed her.

   For some time Mr. Peck has kept her absence quiet in hope that she would be heard from. Adjacent woods were searched and recently inquiry has been made, but not hair or hide of her has been beard from or seen.

   We have beard stories in the past of the doings of an organized gang of plunderers who have abducted horses, cows, fowls and portable personal property and sequestered them in regions not far from the birthplace of John D. Rockefeller, in the borders of Tioga county. We have also heard of a section in the town of Virgil where missing kine [cows, archaic] have been found tied in the woods remote from the haunts of man.

   Anyway, Mr. Peck's cow is gone, and he will pay a good reward for information leading to her recovery, or as to her whereabouts.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Register tomorrow.

   —Neptune Hose Co., of Dryden, is to hold a fair on Nov. 24, 25, and 26.

   —A "Little Outcast" is booked for the Opera House on Thursday evening, Oct. 22.

   —The residence of E. L. Tanner, 126 Homer-ave., has been connected with the Home telephone exchange. The telephone number is 286.

   —Ask your neighbor if he has registered, and if not, get him to do so tomorrow. No registration, no vote in the city of Cortland.

   —A public meeting is to be held in Dryden on Saturday evening of this week to consider the question of better lighting for the streets.

   —Seats for the Normal [School] lecture course will be reserved at McKinney & Doubleday's at 9 o'clock Saturday, Oct. 17. Checks will be issued as usual on the order of arrival.

   —The new display advertisements today are—S. Simmons, Clothing sale, page 8; Geo. H. Wiltsie, Dry goods, page 6; F. E. Brogden, Lyons' candies, page 5; L. H. Hewitt, Shingles, page 5; C. F. Brown, Household ammonia, page 5; J. W. Cudworth, Optical goods, page 6.

 

AGAINST FAITH CURE, INSURGENTS ROUTED, INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER, GOMEL MASSACRE, KING'S DAUGHTERS, AND TEACHERS' COUNCIL

 

Rev. John Alexander Dowie.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, October 14, 1903.

AGAINST FAITH CURE.

Decision of Court of Appeals In Pierson Case.

WAS NO ERROR IN TRIAL COURT.

Reversal by Appellate Division Overruled—Defendant Had Been Found Guilty In 1901 of Criminal Negligence In Not Providing Licensed Physician For His Infant Daughter.

   Albany, Oct. 14.—In connection with the proposed visitation to New York city by the "restoration host" of the Christian Catholic church, of which Rev. John Alexander Dowie is general overseer, especial interest attaches to the decision handed down by the court of appeals in the case of People vs. Pierson, declaring dependence upon faith-healing in cases of sickness to be criminal negligence.

   Pierson lives at White Plains, and early in 1901 was sentenced to $500 fine or 600 days imprisonment for criminal negligence in failing to provide a licensed physician to attend his 16 months old adopted daughter in a case of bronchial pneumonia, which afterward proved fatal.

   The conviction was secured under the penal code, which holds that "a person who omits without lawful excuse to perform a duty by law imposed upon him to furnish food, clothing, shelter or medical attendance to a minor is guilty," etc.

   Justice Bartlett, in the prevailing opinion in the appellate division, held that the "medical attendance" referred to in the statute does not mean exclusively the attendance of a medical practitioner in the general sense of the term.

   The appellate division reversed the conviction.

   In its opinion, written by Judge Haight, the court of appeals says: "It would seem that the legislative intent is reasonably clear, although possibly more precise language could have been employed.

   "We are aware that there are people who believe that the divine power may be invoked to heal the sick and that faith is all that is required. There are others who believe that the Creator has supplied the earth, nature's storehouse, with everything that man may want for his support and maintenance, including the restoration and preservation of his health, and that he is left to work out his own salvation, under fixed natural laws. There are still others who believe that Christianity and science go hand in hand, both proceeding from the Creator; that science is but the agent of the Almighty, through which He accomplishes results, and that both science and divine power may be invoked together to restore diseased and suffering humanity.

   "But, sitting as a court of law for the purpose of construing and determining the meaning of statutes, we have nothing to do with variances in religious belief and have no power to determine which is correct. We place no limitations upon the power of the mind over the body, the power of faith to dispel disease, or the power of the supreme being to heal the sick. We merely declare the law as given us by the legislature. We find no error on the part of the trial court that called for a reversal."

 

INSURGENTS ROUTED.

Vilayet of Monastir Settling Down. Rebuilding Houses.

   Monastir, Monday, Oct. 12.—Via Salonika, Macedonia, Oct. 13.—This district is settling down. The insurgents have been routed and practically annihilated in the Peristeri mountains, though their stronghold is still the meeting place of what insurrectionists remain in the region.

   Chakalaroff, the insurgent leader, is still at large in the Kastoria district, but most of the peasants who accompanied him have surrendered.

   The inspector general Hilmi Pasha, in concert with the mixed commission, is arranging to rebuild the homes which were destroyed out of government funds.

 

Insurgents Sent Home.

   Sofia, Oct. 14.—A band of 70 insurgents, caught near the frontier by Bulgarian troops, was sent to Sofia yesterday.

   The passage of bands across the frontier has become increasingly difficult, owing to the precautions of the government and the increase in the number of frontier guards.

   The general situation is unchanged. Fear is expressed in many quarters that the Turks will oppose the application of the Austro-Hungarian reform plans.

 

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO.

Leading Manufacturers Taking Preliminary Steps Toward Consolidation.

   Chicago, Oct. 14.—Radical changes in the offices of the International Harvester company, by which the offices of the constituent companies will be consolidated, are being put in effect by the directing officials of the big combine. By this consolidation step, which will extend throughout the country to all cities and towns where the McCormick, Deering and other companies have offices, it is expected to save the salaries of several thousand employees, the total saving to the combine amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

   During the last few days the branch offices of the Champion, Plano, McCormick and Deering companies have been notified to take inventories at once as a preliminary to being welded into one. In Cincinnati it was announced that three offices would be closed, all the business being conducted at the remaining four branch offices hitherto maintained there. For the Cincinnati district, W, D. Adams, the present general agent of the Champion branch, will be the general manager under the new system and C. S. Ritter, the general agent of the Deering company will be made the new general agent. The saving there is estimated at $500,000 a year.

 

THE GOMEL MASSACRE.

Details of the Attack on Jews In Northwest Russia.

THEIR COURAGE WAS ASTONISHING.

Even the Women Fought—Part of the Time the Jews Were Assaulted by Both Soldiers and Mob—Wholesale Executions May Follow Resistance to the Soldiers.

   The Jewish Morning Journal of New York recently printed the following letter about the Gomel massacre of Jews in northwest Russia from its special correspondent at Warsaw:

   "It all began on Friday (Sept. 11) with a quarrel between a Jewish shopkeeper and a Christian woman who refused to pay for a herring. The attack on the Jews was renewed on Sept. 14. It soon transpired that the riot of Friday was only a kind of rehearsal for the real pogrom, which took place on the 14th and 15th. Now, the streets of Gomel were drenched with blood, and the rioters this time were not peasants, but the strongly built little Russian railroad laborers, 500 in number. The Jews defended themselves as valiantly as on Friday, with whatever weapons they could get hold of. The police worked earnestly and diligently to quell the disorder, but were powerless against the savage mob. In ordinary times there are plenty of soldiers in Gomel, but at this time of the year they were still in their summer camps and could not reach the town the first day of the riot.

   "The Jews telegraphed to the governor of Mohilev for assistance and received a reply that he was indisposed and could not start for Gomel on that day, but he requested the chief of police to aid the Jews. The chief carried out the order faithfully, and he himself shot to death two Russians, but he was powerless to restore order. Five Jews were killed the first day, and but for the gallant fight put up by the Jews the number of killed would be much larger. The strength and courage displayed by these people, who are generally taunted for cowardice, were something astonishing. Even women fought. The physical agility and the correctness of their aim were not at all those of a race of cringing peddlers.

   "The riot became worse on the 15th, but the Jews still stood their ground. The governor arrived that day. The peasants from the surrounding country began to gather on receipt of the news that the Jews were being robbed at Gomel, and many came with the intention of revenging Friday's defeat. The Jews were prepared and had armed men stationed on all the roads leading into Gomel.

   "The soldiers arrived in the forenoon, and their first act to restore order was an attempt to disperse the Jews. The latter replied that they could not trust their lives to the soldiers for fear of a repetition of the Kishineff atrocities. They insisted that the attacking rioters should be dispersed first. The soldiers insisted and fired on the Jews. The latter returned the fire, and they were soon attacked from both sides—that is, by the soldiers, and by the rioters.

   "In the meantime the news of the riot reached Minsk, and fifty well armed young Jews from that city hastened to the rescue of their distressed brethren in Gomel. But they were betrayed by an agent provocateur, or government spy, who was among them and were arrested on their arrival at the railroad depot of Gomel.

   The riot ended on the third day. Ten Jews and eight Christians were killed (the figures of the government Messenger are false), and the number of seriously wounded is very large. Among the dead is also young Kohanovski, aged twenty-two, who enjoyed an excellent reputation

   The city is practically destroyed. Houses are demolished and shops emptied of all their contents. Several synagogues were destroyed, and the town looks as if a great conflagration had taken place there.

   "But there is something worse in store for the Jews of Gomel. The city was even before the outbreak under a mild form of martial law, owing to the labor troubles which took place there recently, and the Jews who resisted the soldiers were told that they would be tried before a military court, which means that they may be sentenced to death."

 

THE KING'S DAUGHTERS

Annual State Convention Now in Progress in Cortland.

   The annual convention of the King's Daughters of New York state is being held in the First Baptist church of this city. The opening session was held yesterday and the convention will be brought to a close tomorrow evening.

   Nearly every train yesterday brought its quota of delegates and numbers arrived this morning. Nearly 120 delegates from forty different cities and villages had registered at noon today and others came in on the 1:03 train.

   The delegates began registering yesterday afternoon and at 4 o'clock there was a meeting of the executive committee. Last evening the delegates and guests were tendered a reception in the parlors of the First Baptist church. Rev. W. J. Howell delivered the address of welcome in his usual happy manner and Mrs. W. H. Evans of New York responded for the delegates. The excellent program which had been prepared was greatly enjoyed by every one present. A social hour followed the program which gave the delegates, members of the local circles and guests an opportunity to meet one another and become somewhat acquainted. The church was tastefully decorated for the occasion with palms, ferns, etc., and with purple and white. Today the regular program as published in Monday's Standard was followed.

   The session was opened at 9:30 o'clock by devotional exercises conducted by Mrs. S. S. Stearnes of Cortland. The convention was then formally opened by the state secretary, Mrs. D. H. Laird of Woodville. The roll was called and the delegates responded. The minutes of last year's convention were then read and the reports of the state secretary and recording secretary were next heard.

   Various committees were appointed and miscellaneous business transacted up to the time for closing the morning session.

   This afternoon reports were heard from the different county organizations and city unions. Miss Julia Heath of New York also read a paper on King's Daughters and Settlement work.

   This evening's program includes addresses by Mrs. Whitney of Detroit and by Mrs. Margaret Bottome of New York, international president of The King's Daughters and Sons.

 

Miss Mary F. Hendrick, English department, Cortland Normal School.

TEACHERS' COUNCIL

To Meet at the Normal Building in Cortland Oct. 24.

   The first fall meeting of the Tioughnioga Teachers' council will be held at room 106 in the Normal school building on Saturday, Oct. 24. All teachers in the vicinity are invited to attend and to become members. The annual membership fee is 50 cents for ladies and $1 for gentlemen. The program of this meeting will be as follows:

   10:15 A. M.—Roll call with Quotations.

   Music, Miss Turner

   Business.

   10:30 A. M.—Paper, Cultivation of the Power of Expression, Miss M. M. Conway, Cortland.

   Discussion, Miss M. F. Hendrick, Cortland; Miss Jessie L. Barnes, Cincinnatus.

   General Discussion.

   11:15 A. M.—Paper, Relation of Elementary to Secondary Schools, Commissioner E. W. Childs, Homer.

   General Discussion.

   12:00—Recess.

   2:00 P. M.—Address, Prof. DeGarmo, Cornell University.

 

Teacher Many Years.

   Miss Olive Backus has just closed, by resignation, her continuous service of forty-three years as a teacher in the public schools of Chicago. She is 70 years of age, and is going to California to make her home there. She has taught 20,000 pupils. For fifteen years past she has walked daily, winter and summer, a mile to the school.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Congressman Driscoll of Syracuse says that on the opening day of congress be shall introduce a bill appropriating $1,000,000 for a new federal building for the Salt city.

   —The Home Telephone Co. are establishing an exchange in Marathon. They have about forty subscribers at present and hope to be ready to begin operations by the first of November.

   — Burglars entered the coal office of Fred J. Schuler in Oswego Monday night, rolled the safe out into the shed, battered it opened and secured the enormous sum of $1.20 in pennies.

   —The new display advertisements today are—M. W. Giles, Special prices, page 7; M. A. Case, Furs, cloaks, etc., page 6; McGraw & Elliott, Rat biscuit, page 6; Angell & Thomas, Boots, page 6; F. Daehler, Clothing, page 8; Sugar Bowl, Hot chocolate, page 8; First National Bank, Bank accounts, page 6.