BULGARIAN OUTBREAK, ANTI-SEMITIC RIOTS, GERMANY UNEASY, CIRCUS, RETAIL CLERKS, AND FIRE IN CUYLER, N. Y.

 

Sultan Abdul Hamid II, ruler of Ottoman Empire.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, May 1, 1903.

BULGARIAN OUTBREAK.

Encounter With the Turkish Troops. Bank Dynamited.

   Salonica, European Turkey, May 1.—The Ottoman bank here was destroyed by dynamite. The Turkish office and other buildings also were attacked, resulting in a panic during which two men were killed and two persons injured. A detachment of 2,000 additional troops have since arrived here from Smyrna. Quiet has been restored.

   The attack on the bank was carried out by two bands of men. One party assaulted the guard and the other hurled the bombs. It is thought the strong room resisted the explosions. Several of the men who took part in the attack have been arrested.

  The destruction of the French steamer Guadalquir by an explosion, while leaving this port Tuesday, was evidently caused by a bomb. A Bulgarian has been arrested in connection with the outrage.

   In an encounter with Turkish troops at Nevrokop, European Turkey, 18 Bulgarians were killed and 14 were made prisoners. There also was a serious encounter near Djumabala where a band of over 100 insurgents was annihilated.

 

Kishinev pogrom, April, 1903, bodies in the streets.

Anti-Semitic Riots.

   Vienna, May 1.—Private letters received here from Czernowitz say over 300 persons were killed during the recent anti-Semitic riots at Kischeneff, capital of Bessarabia.

   Horrible brutalities are reported to have occurred. Many women and children were victims of the mob which included even the better classes of the inhabitants. Some of the victims were thrown from windows to the pavement.

   The rioters also pillaged and defiled the synagogues and killed the caretakers. What the looters of houses were unable to carry off they saturated with paraffin and burned. The damage done to property is estimated at several millions of rubles. The Jews who escaped from Kischeneff are seeking refuge at Odessa and elsewhere.

 

Many Dynamite Explosions.

   Vienna, May 1.—Telegrams received here from Sofia declare that the Mitylene bank at Salonica also has been burned.

   An official telegram reporting the Salonica outrage says that 50 other dynamite explosions occurred in different parts of the city at the same time and that many persons were killed or wounded.

 

GERMANY UNEASY.

Thinks that England and France are Combining Against Her.

   Berlin, May 1.—The German press is becoming uneasy over King Edward's visit to Paris. There is a strong impression that England and France are arranging a deal at Germany's expense, and that the two countries are planning a common front against the Germans in Morocco and elsewhere. The result of such an Anglo-French agreement, some of the papers point out, would be to increase Germany's isolation, which would render it more imperative for the Kaiser to secure the friendship of America.

 

Sig. Sautelle's circus clowns in street parade. 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Success to the Circus.

   Sautelle's circus starts out upon its summer tour today, and the city of Cortland, which is its home, wishes it the best of success. This is the first time a circus has gone out from Cortland, and the idea is something of a novelty. For two years past this circus has wintered in Homer and has gone from that town, but during the last year Sig. Sautelle, tbe proprietor, has moved to Cortland, has purchased property here and has identified himself with the interests of the city. The winter quarters are midway between Cortland and Homer, but all the business is conducted from this city. Cortland feels a personal interest and a certain pride in Sautelle's circus. The city has seen it steadily grow and improve. It is indeed worthy of admiration. For a number of days its tents have been going up on the show grounds. The large and handsome horses have been going back and forth between winter quarters and show grounds. The menagerie has been gradually brought to its place in the tent and all the city has looked on. This afternoon it has given a very creditable exhibition. Tonight there will be another one, and then it will start out for the summer, and all will wish it well and will be glad to see success crown the efforts of the energetic and bustling proprietor.

 

THE RETAIL CLERKS

Hold an Enthusiastic Meeting and Plan to Organize.

   A large and enthusiastic meeting of retail clerks was held last evening in Garrison hall, at which time F. W. Lanigan, the temporary chairman, gave a full report of his investigations regarding the Retail Clerks International Protective association at Syracuse.

   Several clerks were present who have belonged to the association in other cities and made very earnest remarks in favor of its organization in Cortland.

   The object of the Retail Clerks International Protective association is to unite all retail clerks into one grand fraternity, thereby elevating their calling, increasing their usefulness, promoting their welfare and protecting them in case of sickness or distress, also to shorten the hours of labor which in the average store in some lines of trade is from 6 in the morning until 8 or 9 in the evening. The objects are honorable, humane and just. Believing that home is the cradle of good government, the R. C. I. P. A. causes sufficient leisure to cultivate home ties and associations and self culture. In the many cities where local associations exist they have the respect and good will of their employers and the general public.

   The death benefit is one of the important features of the R. C. I. P. A.

   All retail clerks who desire to become members of the association are requested to be present at Garrison hall next Tuesday evening, May 5, at 8:15 when W. G. Ford of Syracuse, the state organizer, will be present to organize a local association in Cortland.

   Clerk.

 

CHANGE IN RURAL HOURS.

Carriers to Start Later and Return Later for Six Months.

   An order from the postoffice department directs rural carriers during the six months from May 1 to Nov. 1 in the period of good roads to leave the postoffice at 10 a m. instead of at 7:30 a. m. as formerly and requiring them to return to the postoffice with their collections by 6 p. m. instead of at 3 p. m. as formerly. In the winter months the carriers could probably not make their trips as quickly as this, and so they must start earlier so as to get back before dark. These will be the hours from the Cortland postoffice for the coming six months.

   The Virgil route which is Cortland, R. F. D., No. 3, began service today. The carrier takes a closed pouch directly to Virgil when he starts out, thus delivering the mail there two hours earlier than formerly.

 

FIRE AT CUYLER.

House, Barn, Schoolhouse and Church all Burned.

   The tenant house upon South Cuyler farm of 140 acres belonging to L. S. Barber of Cuyler, the house, barn and cow barn, and a schoolhouse and the M. E. church were all burned yesterday afternoon.

   The house was occupied by Mrs. Sarah Rushmore who had moved in this spring. All the members of the family were away except a 13-year old boy. The fire is suppose to have started from some defect in the chimney and had acquired good headway before it was discovered. The boy rushed off to give the alarm. The nearest neighbors are an eighth of a mile away and before help could get there the house was so enveloped in flames that it was impossible to enter it at all. Consequently every article of the contents was destroyed.

   The wind was blowing a furious gale and from the house the flames spread to the horse barn, a structure about 30 by 40 feet in size, and then to the cow barn, about 30 by 60 feet in size. The barns were in an excellent state of repair and the loss is a heavy one. From the barns blazing embers were carried 20 rods over to an unused schoolhouse that has been discarded since the building of a new one. Fortunately the new one was on the windward side of Mr. Barber's buildings and was out of danger. Before any one realized the fact it was discovered that the M. E. church which stood 20 rods further on beyond the schoolhouse was also on fire, and this likewise was burned. Everything was swept clean.

   The party who brought the news of the fire understood that Mr. Barber had $600 insurance on his buildings, which of course would not begin to cover the loss. Mrs. Rushmore estimated her loss at $600 and had no insurance.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Bishop McQuaid of Rochester confirmed a class of 164 at the Immaculate Conception church at Ithaca Thursday morning.

   —W. H. Angell of Dryden, formerly of Cortland, has sold his shoe store and business to W. F. Graham & Co. of Moravia.

 

W. R. HEARST'S COMPLAINT, MORE EUROPEAN INVESTIGATORS, GEE BRROK EXPRESS, CORTLAND CHARTER AMENDMENTS, AND OBEYING THE LAW

 

William R. Hearst.

George F. Baer.

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, April 30, 1903.

MR. HEARST'S COMPLAINT.

President Baer Said He Was Insulted by a Question.

   New York, April 30.—The interstate commerce commission resumed its investigation into the complaint of William R. Hearst against the anthracite coal carrying railroads.

   President Baer was again called. He could not tell how much of the coal, mined along the railroads he controlled, was not purchased by him. He estimated that 8,600,000 tons of coal is carried annually by the Reading. J. P. Morgan, he said, was not one of the men interested in the Simpson and Watkins project to establish a big general sales depot for anthracite coal.

   Mr. Baer said he promoted the plan to purchase the Temple Iron company and that six railroads were interested. He suggested the percentage of the different companies and their directors accepted it. The plan, he said, was not so broad as to make the company the sales agent of the six companies in New York. His idea was not to maintain uniform price for coal at tidewater but to get rid of the commission of 10 cents a ton for selling coal. He had reduced the expense of selling.

    "But you have not succeeded in reducing the price of coal to the consumers?" asked the counsel.

   "No," replied Mr. Baer. "Because you and your friends have succeeded in raising wages and getting up the cost of necessities so that profits are less."

   Mr. Baer said he could produce the contracts between the Temple Iron company and the railroads. Counsel for the roads objected and he declined to produce them.

   "Is there anything in these contracts," Mr. Shearn asked, "that would degrade and incriminate you?''

   "I decline to answer that question because it is insolent. There is nothing in any contract I have ever made that makes me the criminal your client published me as being and he cannot come into court and insult me. You are not a gentleman or you would not insult me.''

   "I ask the court to rebuke the witness," said Mr. Shearn, turning to the commission. The commission declined to rebuke Mr. Baer.''

 

Forest Fires Raging.

   Glens Falls, N. Y., April 30.—Serious forest fires are raging in the vicinity of Glen lake and the head of Lake George, 250 acres near Fort Gage, south of Lake George, being swept last night. Rain has not fallen in many days, and the fires will continue until there is a change in climatic conditions.

 

The Plague in India.

   Simla, April 30.—Tbe deaths from the plague are becoming something enormous. The mortality throughout India now exceeds over 30,000 a week.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

More European Investigators.

   It is announced that forty-six German agriculturists are coming to this country to study American methods of farming and stock-raising. They propose to stay two months and to travel 10,000 miles over the country in pursuance of their studies. They will doubtless see much that will be of interest and profit to them. They will find some essential differences between the farms of the fatherland and those of this country, particularly in point of acreage and implements.

   Farms are larger in this country, and machinery can be used with better advantage than in Europe. Taxes are lighter, transportation rates for long distances are probably lower and the business is carried on in a more extensive way. There is nothing in Germany to compare with the great wheat regions and stock farms to be found in this country.

   It is gratifying to have our foreign competitors come here and learn for themselves the sources of our superiority. They feel American competition, and they want to see the basis of it. Probably some of the Germans will go back home and decry our methods, but that will not hurt our feelings any. The competition, however, will go on, and hundreds of thousands of Germans will continue to abandon the small and worn out farms in the fatherland, which few tillers of the soil can ever hope to own, for the broader and more productive acres in America of which they can by thrift and economy acquire full and complete ownership. The delegation of investigators will be cordially welcomed and given every advantage to see and learn our methods. What they may say about us upon their return will be quite immaterial.

  

The Gee Brook Express.

   The May number of the Gee Brook Express, a little four-page sheet issued in the interest of the Erie & Central New York railroad and distributed gratuitously to the patrons of that road, has made its appearance and contains many things of interest to the people of the section tapped by that road. Its editor is General Manager L. N. Frederick.

 

Hard Bank to Protect.

   Part of the embankment on the south side of Groton-ave., Cortland, is being freshly graded. It is understood that it will be terraced and sodded over. This will be a great improvement and one that other property owners interested may well note, as the condition of the bank at present is an eye sore to an otherwise well adorned street.

 

City of Cortland—Charter Amendments.

   AN ACT—To amend chapter one hundred and sixty of the laws of nineteen hundred, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Cortland" relative to contracts, the power of common council, and sidewalks.

   Notice is hereby given that a certified copy of a bill for a special city law, as above—entitled, passed by the legislature April 22, 1903, has been transmitted to the Mayor of the City of Cortland, N. Y., pursuant to the provisions of the second section of the twelfth article of the constitution of this state, and that the 5th day of May, 1903, at 7:30 o'clock p. m., at the office of the clerk of said city, is hereby fixed as the time and place for a public hearing in such city concerning such bill, before the mayor and the legislative body of such city.

   Dated, Cortland, April 30, 1903.

   Chas. F. Brown, Mayor of City of Cortland, N. Y.

 

OBEYING THE LAW

And Put Initials Upon the Back of the Automobile.

   When Albert Webb Edgcomb emerged from his house on Court-st., Cortland, at about 10 o'clock this morning he was astounded to see a new red automobile of the Rambler pattern standing in his yard inside the fence next to the office of Dr. F. W. Higgins [owner of the red Rambler—CC ed.] which is next door. He rubbed his eyes to make sure they were not deceiving him and then went back in the house to summon other members of his family to verify the impression he had received that some one had tried to present him with a new auto. He was assured that he was not dreaming and then he went around behind the machine to see whose initials were on it, for the state law requires every automobile owner to display his initials upon the back of the machine, as a means of identifying any automobile that may have done any damage. There were no initials upon it. The machine was undoubtedly a new one and the owner had not yet had time to get them put on.

   The events of the next few minutes do not seem to be very clear, or at least they are not recorded, but at any rate within fifteen minutes the observer might have seen a brand new flour sack firmly tied upon the back of that machine by fully thirty yards of rope and on the exposed side of the sack in letters at least a foot high were the initials, "A. W. E." Mr. Edgcomb then felt better and sat down to keep an eye on the machine. He was confident that it must belong to him because there were his initials, but he had not enough confidence in his new ability as a chauffeur to open the gates and invite any one to go out for a ride with him.

   He is quoted as saying that it would be just like Dr. Higgins to come out there and claim that automobile, and try to run it off, but be would venture the assertion that if the doctor did do so be couldn't prove it to be his property, for the doctor 's initials were not on it and his own were there and tied as firmly as rope could do the job, and if the worst came to worst and he had to demonstrate his ability to run the machine in order to prove his property, he didn't know but he could cut up quite as many fancy movements with it as could the doctor.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The Epworth league of the First M. E. church will hold a social at the home of D. W. Brown, 37 Greenbush-st., Wednesday evening, May 6. An interesting program is being arranged and refreshments will be served.

   —The new display advertisements today are—J. B. Kellogg, Special sale of carpets, etc., page 8; McGraw & Elliott, Paints, page 6; G. H. Wiltsie, Dry goods, page 4; Warren, Tanner & Co., Tailor made suits, page 6; J. W. Cudworth, Optical talks, page 7.

 

Millinery Opening.

   A cordial invitation is extended to every lady to wait for our millinery opening Saturday, May 2, Murray block, Homer, N. Y.

   Mrs. Arthur Fall, Mrs. Frankie Brown.

 

BRITISH DISASTER IN SOMALILAND, MISSIONARY ITINERARY, A WEEK IN ROME, AND RECOVERED HIS HAT

 

Plunkett's Disaster, painted by Melton Prior.

 

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, April 29, 1903.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

The British Disaster in Somaliland.

   According to Kipling's verse the "Fuzzy Wuzzy" of the Sudan who, though a "pore, benighted eathen," is "a first class fightin' man," was the first who "bruk a British square." It appears that Fuzzy Wuzzy has brothers on the gułf of Aden, who are even fiercer fighters than the "big black, boundin' beggars" of central Africa. These are the Somalis, who under the Mad Mollah have done something more than "bruk a British square." They have almost completely annihilated a British column 800 strong, slaughtering colonel, captains and privates, leaving scarcely a score of men to tell the story of the disaster.

   According to late advices from Galadi, Somaliland, Colonel Plunkett's flying column was dispatched by the commander of the British forces in pursuit of the Somalis, following them into the open country seven miles westward of Gumburru, where it was attacked by a very strong force of mounted troops and the enemy's infantry, who attacked at close quarters. Plunkett kept back the enemy until he had no more ammunition, when he formed a square and charged with bayonets. At last the enemy's infantry overwhelmed the square and annihilated nearly the entire column.

   It is not perfectly clear just what the Mad Mollah is mad about, but it is evident that there is fighting blood of the sternest sort in the mixed Arab forces under his command, which appears now to be especially stirred by the religious fanaticism of a new Mohammedan propaganda. At last accounts they were about 15,000 strong. Manifestly Great Britain will need heavy re-enforcements if it is to keep in check the fierce and fanatic Somalis and maintain its supremacy in northeastern Africa.

 

MISSIONARY ITINERARY.

Miss Grace Todd to Spend a Week in Cazenovia District.

   Miss Grace Todd, a missionary from Chung King, West China, will speak under the auspices of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist-Episcopal church at Chittenango, Tuesday afternoon, May 5; Oneida, Wednesday evening, May 6; Tully, Thursday evening, May 7; McGraw, Friday evening, May 8; First church, Cortland, Sunday morning, May 10; Homer, Sunday evening; Pharsalia and Brackle, Tuesday evening, May 12; Homer-ave. church, Wednesday evening, May 11.

   Miss Todd is not a stranger to at least a portion of Cazenovia district, as two years ago she gave addresses in Groton, Moravia and the Homer-ave. M. E. church this city, with marked acceptance. The last named church is glad to give her a second welcome on the date already mentioned. Miss Todd is a highly cultured lady, of pleasing address and attractive manner, and interests all in what she has to say. She is fully consecrated to her calling and will return to her labors in the Celestial empire. The churches mentioned may justly consider themselves fortunate in having the privilege of hearing her. She wears a beautiful silk Chinese costume while speaking.

   These meetings are not held for the purpose of raising money for her benefit as only a collection will be taken to defray the traveling expenses of the speaker, but to give all an opportunity to hear the story of one who has taken an active part in missionary work and thereby create an inspiration to greater efforts in fulfilling the divine command. She comes from the Oswego district, northern New York conference, where she is now filling a week of appointments.

   Mrs. Geo. W. Edgcomb, District Secretary.

 

Rev. W. J. Howell, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Cortland.

A WEEK IN ROME.

Some of the Experiences and Sights Seen by Rev. W. J. Howell.

   Rome-on-the-Tiber, April 6, 1903.

   To the Editor of The Standard:

   Sir—My letters of travel are irregular. I had purposed better things. But like human life in general, one often leaves undone things that he ought to have done. The life of a globetrotter is one of perpetual motion.

   I write you now from Florence, the city of Savonarola, but I will write of my visit in Rome, the imperial city of the Caesars.

   At Naples and Rome our large and congenial company separated. Less than one hundred returned directly to New York. Many small parties took different side trips across Europe. But all were eager to go to Rome.

   I reached Rome on Monday, March 30 and left on the following Saturday. It was late in the afternoon when we had our first view of the historic city. My hotel was very near the Pantheon, so that was my first walk. I entered and remembered that it was built by Agrippa, 27 B. C. In 315 it was closed as a pagan temple. In 606 it was consecrated to Boniface IV, in honor of the Virgin and all the martyrs. Here was buried a great painter and a great king, Raphael and Victor Emmanuel.

   I then called on a classmate of a North Carolina college. He was with me the entire week. The next day a carriage drive was provided for us. We went to St. Peter's, the Vatican museum and Vatican library, the picture gallery and Sistine chapel. In the afternoon we drove outside of the city to the Catacombs, the church of Quo Vadis and the Appian Way. It was seeing all Rome in one day. I thought of a fifteen minute college oration, that I once heard on "America, Her Past, Present and Future." In that case the last word of the subject was spoken, but in our case, it was only a birdseye view, for we went day after day to the Vatican. A Harvard professor spent three months in Rome and went three hours every day to the Vatican and when he left said he was sorry to so hurry away from Rome, for he had not finished the Vatican.

   One cannot exaggerate in describing St. Peter's, the most magnificent church in the world. I walked around it. I stayed for hours inside of it. I climbed its 569 steps to its dome and up into its ball. I walked on the roof and looked out on modern Rome and the winding Tiber, saw the Sabine hills and Alban hills in the distance, there was the Compagne and Appian Way, threading itself out into the distance. We located the seven hills of the city, its leading churches and historic buildings, the Roman forum and Colosseum [sic] and the Palatine hill, where Caesar's palace stood. This church has cost $50,000,000. It has 300 different kinds of marble.

   I spent several hours in the Sistine chapel, a small room, but one of the costliest chapels in the world. Here is Michael Angelo's famous picture, "The Last Judgment." He was seven years in painting it. He did it at the age of 67 years. For 400 years this painting has been viewed and admired by thousands. Perhaps it is the first picture of the world, and Raphael's "Transfiguration" is the second and Reni's "Crucifixion" the third. It takes hours, if not days to understand and to appreciate the "Last Judgment." It has 300 figures in it. The many paintings of Raphael give unceasing pleasure. But his "Transfiguration'' is visited again and again and preferred above all others. Days can well be spent in the Vatican picture galleries.

   I visited "St. John Lateran" church and saw the holy stairs and worshippers going up on their knees. These steps were brought from Jerusalem and are believed to have led to Pilate's judgment hall. Luther was going up these stairs, when he exclaimed, "The just shall live by faith, " and then followed the Protestant Reformation.

   I did not get to finish this letter at Florence. I am now at Venice. When the conductor calls you, you must leave all and follow. Florence is a wonderful city of art. We reached Venice last night at 11 o'clock. The moonlight ride in gondolas was fine. We start this morning for several hours in gondolas. Easter in Paris, then to Holland. Sail from Bremen on April 28. I close to get this on first steamer.

   Very truly, W. J. Howell.

 

FOR THE WAREHOUSES.

Representative of Lackawanna Confers With Cortland People.

   A representative of the Lackawanna railroad was in Cortland yesterday and conferred with Agent R. R. Spier, the local representative, F. H. Cobb of Cobb & Co., and D. C. Beers of Beers & Warfield in regard to the new warehouses to be erected by the two firms mentioned. The sites were agreed upon. Cobb & Co.'s is to be east of the switch leading to the piano factory and at the corner of Pendleton and East Court-sts. Beers & Warfield are to buy the two buildings formerly used by the railroad as an engine house and storehouse and will place them on the west side of the switch facing East Court-st. Cobb & Co.'s plans for building are not yet far enough along to enable them to make any statement concerning the building.

 

RECOVERED HIS HAT.

Came Safely in a Candy Pail and Was Well Accompanied.

   Harry A. Vail was in Ithaca, N. Y., yesterday and in the course of the day called upon Druggist J. B. Todd. The car for the Lehigh Valley station passed unexpectedly and Mr. Vail seized the first hat he could find and dashed after the car. The hat proved not to be his own. He mentioned the fact to Mayor Brown last night. Whose chief clerk he is in the pharmacy, and the mayor replied that he was evidently keeping up the reputation of the store, for it is an open secret that the mayor always brings home a new hat every time he leaves town, and on a recent visit to Ithaca he too brought away on of Mr. Todd’s hats.

   This morning Mr. Vail received an express package. It was a large wooden candy pail utilized as a hat box and it contained the Cortland hat. The package was addressed to “Mayor Brown’s chief hired man.” The pail was so thoroughly decorated that the impression prevails here that Mr. Todd and his three assistants in his drug store sat up all night to prepare it. Upon the lid was a poem in which was told the story of the exchange of hats, and in which the the writer took occasion to refer to the fact that this hat of his had gone to keep company with another which had preceded it to Cortland. The side of the pail was covered with appropriate pictures and inscriptions in prose and in verse. A wide range of subjects was covered, though all bore more or less directly upon the case in point. Upon the bottom of the pail was a fitting “good night” picture. Mr. Vail says he shall keep the pail among his closest possessions as a souvenir and in the meantime he shall lie low for an opportunity to return Druggist Todd’s courtesy at the right time in the future.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The new rural delivery route to Virgil, N. Y., known as R. F. D., No. 3, will start Friday, May 1.

   —On Tuesday, May 5, the attraction at the Opera House will be “The Evil Eye,” an original novelty introducing a living skeleton.

   —On Tuesday, May 26, the city of Ithaca will hold a special election to determine whether $10,000 shall be appropriated to defray the expenses incurred and to be incurred with the recent typhoid fever epidemic and the cleaning up of the city.

   —The new display advertisements today are: The First National Bank, Banking, page 7; M. W. Giles, Refrigerators, etc., page 7; Opera House, “The Evil Eye,” page 5; W. W. Bennett, Hardware, page 7; Warren, Tanner & Co., Carpets, page 6; S. Simmons, Clothing, page 6.