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A Lively Blaze.
While our firemen were dreaming over the
pleasures of the annual parade day they were called to duty by an alarm from
box 314, corner of Elm and Pomeroy-st., at 8:05 A. M. Thursday.
The Emerald boys were near the Hitchcock building
when the Hitchcock hose cart, drawn by the mule, came out. A lively race, which
ended in a draw ensued to the scene of the fire, a double house on the corner of
Elm and Excelsior-sts. The run was a long one and the fire had attained
considerable headway. It seemed to have started in the hall near the center of
the house, on the first floor, and burned to the tin roof, spreading in all directions
so that flames issued from all the windows. The Orris hose was not far behind
the others and soon five streams of water were pouring into the building.
A second alarm was turned in to try and
start the Hook and Ladder truck for ladders were sadly needed to reach the
upper windows. At a third alarm a man was sent to arouse "Johnny"
Garrity with whom chief Dowd has made arrangements for a term to draw the truck
to fires.
Owing to the large number of small rooms,
and the headway, which it had attained, it was very hard to play on the fire at
all points, and no sooner was it dark in one place than light sprung up in another.
An hour and a half of steady hard work by
our ever ready firemen was necessary before the chief ordered the water shut
off.
Only
the shell was left standing.
Mr. J. J. Updike had purchased the property
of Mrs. Theodore Stevenson, and papers were entered in the County Clerk's office
on Wednesday evening, and he had a dray engaged to move his goods into the
house Thursday morning.
There was an insurance of $3,000 on the house
and as soon as the Insurance Company gets matters adjusted Mr. Updike intends
to rebuild.
The Lincoln club have occupied the house for
several months, and a Mr. Hayes, who has but one arm, was sleeping in the second
story. He escaped in his nightclothes by jumping from the roof of the piazza.
It is not known how the fire originated.
Injured
by a Runaway.
(From the Homer Republican, Sept. 1.)
About half-past five o'clock Monday evening,
as Rev. B. F. Rogers and wife of Scott were driving through this village, their
horse took fright at three children who were running across the road with
flags. The horse whirled around and ran and threw Mr. and Mrs. Rogers out in
front of the Ormsby house. The wagon was turned upside down, the horse broke loose
from the wagon and ran through the yard of C. H. Danes and came out in the
driveway of Mrs. Henrietta Hawley, where it was caught.
Mr. and Mrs. Rogers were taken into the house of LeRoy Taft. Drs. Robinson and Potter were called and found Mr. Rogers badly bruised about the face and two ribs fractured. Mrs. Rogers' face was severely bruised and she also received injuries to her back and knee. They remained at Mr. Taft's until yesterday afternoon when they returned to Scott.
Mr. and Mrs. Rogers were taken into the house of LeRoy Taft. Drs. Robinson and Potter were called and found Mr. Rogers badly bruised about the face and two ribs fractured. Mrs. Rogers' face was severely bruised and she also received injuries to her back and knee. They remained at Mr. Taft's until yesterday afternoon when they returned to Scott.
Mr. Rogers is still suffering from the
injuries, but it is hoped they will not prove of a serious nature.
NEIGHBORING
COUNTIES.
CHENANGO.—Chenango county is to have a type-setting
contest at Norwich about October 1.
The Maydole factory at Norwich employes
[sic] 130 men and turns out 100 dozen hammers per day.
A short but terrific storm struck the north-east
quarter of the town of Sherburne, Friday. It caused a rise of several feet in
Mad Brook, which for the third time took out a part of Contractor Vaughn's
reservoir dam.
A shipment of hammers was made last week by
the Maydole Hammer company at Norwich, Chenango county, to China, the first
consignment the company ever made to the flowery Kingdom, although a market is
found for its product in most parts of the world.
MADISON.—The Oneida Battery offered their
services to Governor Flower during the [switchmen's] strike.
The Hobbs house in Hamilton village was
damaged some $800 by fire Saturday.
Luke Coon is under arrest for receiving a
pension certificate on a debt at Oneida Castle.
A recent storm is estimated to have damaged
Mott Stebbins' hop yard in Poolville about $1,000.
John J. Brant, of Syracuse, while fishing
near Sylvan Beach last week, caught a pickerel measuring 41 inches in length and
weighing 12 1/4 pounds.
Game Inspector Harrison Hawn, of the10th
district, comprising part of Oneida, Oswego, Cortland, Madison and Onondaga counties,
traveled 410 miles and arrested 10 men engaged in drawing seines [fishing nets],
during the month of July.
Last Friday's storm flooded the streets at
DeRuyter, moved some buildings, tore up two or three hundred feet of sidewalk, filled
cellars and did a large amount of damage. The foundry was supposed to be
injured to the amount of $1,000.
Tompkins.—Annual inspection of the fire
department, Sept. 7.
A number of people were robbed in Ithaca on
the day of Forepaugh's circus. One person
was relieved of $75.
About five years ago, Mr. Oliver Cady, one
of the most highly respected citizens of Dryden, mysteriously disappeared, and as
later developments showed, he had made his way to Canada. Investigation proved
he was indebted for various amounts to different parties, and that certain property
held in trust had been used for other than legitimate purposes. Subsequent events
have proved that while the old gentleman was in a measure to blame, he was made
the victim of one who was not only designing but unscrupulous, and who
exercised a strong will power over the aged gentleman, sufficient to keep him an
exile and wanderer in a strange land for five long and weary years. On Monday,
Aug. 15th, there alighted from a passenger train at Freeville, a gentleman, aged
and trembling. It was Oliver Cady, returned from his long exile.
Obituary.
We are called upon to chronicle the death of
one of our oldest and most respected citizens, Bernard O'Neil. He came to our town
thirty-two years ago, having disposed of his home in New York city. He built a
residence in our town and also a carriage factory. His career in business was
cut short by a most disastrous fire which visited his property in 1862,
sweeping everything away. He rallied after this and started anew. Since that
time until the last few years he has labored for his family with untiring
energy until old age rendered him unfit for business, yet he never ceased to be
interested in the welfare of our little town. He, in his early days of business
in Truxton, employed men who are now among the leaders of that business,
carriage manufacturing. He was respected by all who knew him and we shall miss
his venerable face among us. He leaves a wife advanced in years, three sons and
one daughter, to whom we offer our condolence.
J. C. C.
Bernard O'Neil, St. Patrick's Cemetery, Truxton, N. Y.
HERE AND
THERE.
About 20 persons left here last week for the
hop yards at Earlville.
The Keyes Sisters concert in the Opera
House, next Tuesday evening.
The Cortland City Band will accompany the Knight
Templars in Oswego, Sept. 13.
Mr. W. B. Landreth, of Schenectady, is
making a preliminary survey of the streets of this village, for a system of
sewerage.
The members of the 45th Separate Company are
practicing on their range to qualify themselves as marksmen and sharpshooters.
The Cortland Wheel Club held their annual
corn roast on E. C. Rindge's farm, near the County House, yesterday. They
report a bang up time.
A basket picnic will be held at the Trout Park
on the evening of Sept. 5th, Labor day, under the auspices of Cortland Wagon
Co. Mutual Aid. A large attendance is expected.
The Cortland Harness and Carriage Goods
Company have commenced the erection of an addition to their blacksmith shop. It
will be of brick, 75x55 feet, and one story high.
On and after Monday next the Cortland and
Homer Horse Car Company will run cars over their road every half hour, between
the hours of 8 and 11 o'clock A. M. and 1 and 6 o'clock P. M. This will prove a
great convenience to the public.
The Cortland City Band gave an excellent
open-air concert on the corner of Main street and Clinton-ave., Tuesday
evening. A large crowd of people listened to their fine music. After the
concert the band serenaded Messrs. C. F. Brown, F. D. Smith and F. Cy Straat.
A new horse disease has begun raging in various
parts of the State for some time. It swells the lower portion of the legs to a
large size, keeps the horse from eating anything, and in some cases as the
disease advances they become crazed and can scarcely be subdued. As yet no
remedy is offered, nor can any cause be advanced for it.
Last Tuesday morning, while Vernon Higgins
was driving a mustang along Port Watson-st., the animal stopped and refused to
go until the lash was applied, when he started off in a hurry, throwing the boy
and Mrs. Jane Wood, who was with him, out of the wagon. He ran into Foundry
Lane, demolished the wagon, and had a hole punched in his body by a piece of a
broken thill. The animal was taken to Dr. Baker's infirmary across the street,
and the wound was dressed, but inflammation set in and he died the next day.
Neither the lad nor the lady received any hurt from the fall.
The Standard announces that
"Owing to the great amount of extra work which has been crowding us in the
consolidation of the two daily papers," the proprietors decided to
postpone the annual picnic given to its correspondents until another year. That
grand consolidation of pigmies seems to furnish an excuse for every sin of
omission or commission in our neighbor's establishment. It is almost a
wonder that the earth didn't tremble when the two dailies met, and were melted
into one decidedly harmless and inoffensive publication.
To
Detect Water Wasters.
Telephones are to be used for ferreting out
the habitual water waster. The waterphone, said to be the invention of Prof. Bell,
the patentee of the telephone, is the basis of a new million dollar
corporation.
It is a mechanical telephone having a diaphragm
about three inches in diameter in a large bell-shaped transmitter. Contact is
made with a steel pin which has a thread on its external end to which may be
attached a sounding rod.
In operation the inspector of the waterworks
places the end of the sounding rod on the pipe leading into the house, and can
readily detect by the rush of the rush of the water if the precious fluid is
being wasted. The waterphone can also be
used to locate leaks, taking the place of the steel wire which plumbers hold between
their teeth and press against the pipe for the same purpose.
The
Bicycle Sulky.
To the Editor:
The attention of the country has recently
been called to the breaking of the world’s record of trotting by means of a sulky
provided with bicycle wheels.
The ordinary sulky wheels, which are usually
about 58 inches in diameter, are removed, and these bicycle wheels, which are
about 28 inches, are attached directly under the sulky axle, each wheel has a
fork, one end of which is drilled out and slips over the axle of the sulky; the
other end of this fork is fastened to the axle on which the bicycle wheel
revolves; another fork brace is fastened to the end of this bicycle wheel axle
and to the shaft of the sulky.
By this arrangement the wheels revolve
directly under the sulky axles, the tires nearly touching them, so that the
driver's seat remains very nearly the same height from the ground as it did
when the ordinary wheels were used.
The wheels used on the sulky drawn by Nancy
Hanks in her world's record breaking trot at Chicago, August 17, were bicycle
wheels having ball bearings and "horsepipe" inflated tires.
The reason why this sulky enabled the horse to
break the previous records, was because the ball bearings reduced the friction
of the wheels and the rubber tires gave better traction.
In view of the fact of there having been
some misunderstanding in the matter, it is mere justice to say that the wheels
used by this record breaker were provided with pneumatic tires and ball
bearings made by the Pope Manufacturing Co., of Boston.
Very Respectfully yours,
POPE MF'G Co., ALBERT A. POPE, President.
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