ANARCHISTS COMING TO AMERICA

Nichol and Mowbray on trial.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, October 24, 1894. 
Anarchists Coming to America.

   LONDON, Oct. 24.—Numbers of leading English and foreign anarchists are vacating their haunts in London and the majority are proceeding singly to America. The reason for this migration is the harrassing they have been subjected to on account of the vigilance of the police. Mowbray, the socialist leader, will shortly return to the United States.

Chancellor von Caprivi.

Germany's Anti-Socialist Measures.

   BERLIN, Oct. 24.—The Cologne Gazette states that Chancellor von Caprivi has invited the leading ministers of the German states to a conference in Berlin in order to discuss the proposed anti-socialist measures.

TWO RIOTS IN ONE NIGHT.

Non-Union Hatters Attacked by a Foreign Mob.

   NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 21.—Non-union hatters who have been put to work in several shops here during the strike were attacked last night at Arch-st. and Springfield-ave. and two riots each involving 300 or 400 Russian and Polish Jews and Italians occurred. The crowds were put to flight by the police after a number of heads were cut and a dozen strikers were arrested.

National Guard troops firing at strikers during the Pullman strike. Harper's.

NATIONAL STRIKE COMMISSION.

Report on the Great Chicago Strike Expected Soon.

   WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—The national strike commission, appointed by President Cleveland to investigate the great strike at Chicago, reconvened in the office of Commissioner of Labor Wright.

   After the last meeting the members went to their homes to prepare subdivisions of the report to be presented. This has been largely completed and the commission is now engaged in giving final shape to the report to the president.

   The sessions are secret and no intimation is given as to the nature of the report. It is understood, however, that the inquiry will deal with the strike in such a way as to make the report one of the most valuable contributions to the literature of social problems made in recent years. It is said also that the important rulings recently made by Justice Harlan of the United States supreme court in the Jenkins injunction case are in line with the conclusions drawn from the Chicago outbreak as to the rights and limitations of strikers.

   The report will be submitted to President Cleveland soon after he returns and it will remain for him to determine as to its publicity.
    Ref: https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1904/040707-debs-federalgovandchicagostrike.pdf

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Business.

   The improvement in business is discouragingly slow. The volume of domestic trade as indicated by railroad earnings is 3.4 per cent less than a year ago and 13.4 per cent less than in 1892. The payments through the clearing houses during last week were 2.3 per cent larger than a year ago but were 31.5 per cent less than two years ago. Exports of merchandise from New York so far this month have declined 18 per cent, but imports have increased 27 per cent. During the week cotton declined below 6 cents and wheat below 55 cents in New York, These were the lowest prices on record, but notwithstanding that, the foreigners were indifferent buyers, so that the balance of trade was against us and we were obliged to settle in gold.

   During the week the exports of the yellow metal were valued at more than a million dollars. There is something truly alarming in the fact that when our great crops of wheat and cotton are ready for market and are offered not only at the lowest prices on record but actually below the cost of production, Europe refuses to buy and we are obliged to export gold to settle the balance of trade. And when these exports are made at a time when the Federal treasury is struggling to get gold and keep it in order to maintain the parity of paper money and the banks of New York, though they hold more than $80,000,000 of gold, refuse to part with a dollar of it, but demand that the treasury itself shall supply the gold needed for export, the difficulties and dangers of the situation become more clearly apparent.

   In addition to decreasing exports, increasing imports, exports of gold, smaller railroad earnings, and the lowest prices on record for wheat and cotton, other unfavorable features might be mentioned, among them the decline in the price of corn; the immense amount of idle money, (three trust companies in New York hold $40,000,000); the decline in stocks, and the falling off in the revenue of the government.

   The wheat markets were dull during the week and prices made a new low record, The old obstacles to an advance still remain. Stocks are increasing and an enlargement in consumption has not yet made much impression on the visible supply which, according to "Bradstreet," is now 98,000,000 bushels against 77,000,000 a year ago. The increase last week was about 3,000,000 and followed an increase of the week before of some 4,000,000. Low as our prices are, the grain-growers of the Argentine Republic continue to undersell us. The indications are that the crop to be harvested in that country in January will be larger by many millions of bushels than any previous crop. Receipts of wheat at Western points showed some increase, but not enough to influence speculation. The movement was almost all in the Northwest. Minneapolis and Duluth had receipts ranging from 700 to 1,000 cars a day. The grain trade concludes, therefore, that the wheat crop of the Dakotas has been largely underestimated. And now comes the announcement that the farmers of Manitoba have 25,000,000 bushels of wheat which they are unable to hold.

WERE THEY BURGLARS?

Suspicious Characters Seen on North Church-st., Cortland.

   On three different occasions people on North Church-st. have observed three suspicions characters prowling around the neighborhood. Shortly after 2 o'clock Friday morning the men were on the porches of the houses of Mr. A. H. Clark and Mrs. Millard at 15 North Church-st. The latter watched them for some time and it is her impression that they desired to break into some house for the purpose of pillage. Their actions aroused her suspicions so much that she could not sleep.

   Between 9 and 10 o'clock Monday evening she saw them again and she thought that one of them carried a dark lantern. She sent after an officer and Policeman Parker responded, but he failed to find the men.

   Several persons one of whom carried a dark lantern were seen in the eastern part of town soon after midnight last night. No reports of any burglaries have been received up to the time of going to press. It behooves every one to lock their houses up tight and to be on their guard.

TOWN REPORTS.

Dryden.

   DRYDEN, Oct. 22.—Mrs. D. R. Montgomery was in Ithaca Saturday.

   Miss May Watkins of Cortland was visiting friends here last week.

   Mr. George E. Goodrich was in Albany Thursday and Friday.

   The pupils of the Union school are having a vacation this week, as the teachers' institute is in session here.

   The Southworth library will be open Friday and Saturday afternoons for the present.

   Mr. Robert Stillwell was in Cortland Saturday.

   Miss Mabel Kerst is spending a week with her parents in Jacksonville.

   Hon. John Raines of Rochester is the speaker at the Republican rally Thursday evening.

   The football game between the teams of the Groton and Dryden Union schools resulted in favor of the Groton team, the score being 28 to 0.

   About one hundred teachers are registered in attendance at teachers' institute of the second commissioner district of this county. Mr. Archibald C. McLachlan is the conductor. In connection with the institute Dr. F. J. Cheney will lecture Tuesday evening on "The Broader Education." Wednesday evening Prof. McLachlan will  speak. The lecturer for Thursday evening is Dr. J. M. Milne.

Taylor.

   TAYLOR, Oct. 22. —Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Rockwell and Miss Nellie Hayes spent last week in Syracuse.

   Several from this place attended the funeral of Eli Dickinson in Cincinnatus Sunday. Mr. Dickinson's people have the sympathy of a large number of friends in this place in the death of their only son.

   Mrs. John Dwight and son and Mrs. Artemas Wire are visiting in Killawog.

   Mr. C. H. Avery of Pennsylvania is a guest at A. K. Bennett's.

   The many friends of Rev. D. S. Anderson are glad to welcome him back for the coming conference year.

   Quarterly meeting services were held in the W. M. church last Saturday and Sunday. Rev. Mr. Atkins of New Woodstock was present.

   Mrs. L. Robbins has gone to Homer to stay with the family of her nephew for a few weeks.

   Miss Stella Cotton has returned from several weeks' stay in Madison county.

   Mrs. Nancy Robertson and Mrs. E. C. Rockwell recently spent a couple of weeks in Gloversville with Mrs. Robertson's son.

   G. W. Gage went to the Brackle Sunday, to see his niece, Miss Ora Weaver, who is ill with typhoid fever.

   Mrs. E. Rice is staying with the family of Hovey Hall in Pitcher.

   Chauncey Pritchard and family have moved into their beautiful new house, which is one of the finest in this vicinity. The carpenter work was done by Gross & Withey of McGrawville and the painting by Palmer & Son of the same place. The house is beautifully situated and is in all respects a model one. About 30 of their friends and neighbors made them a very pleasant surprise, at which an old-fashioned supper was served and all felt that Mr. and Mrs. Pritchard were to be congratulated on having such a pleasant home.

McGrawville.

   McGRAWVILLE, Oct. 22.—Mrs. Sarah E. Haight of Jacksonville and Mrs. Phil Brokaw of Perry City are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hoag.

   Mrs. Myron Withy returned from the West Wednesday evening.

   Mrs. A. P. McGraw and Miss Alice Childs spent Thursday in Syracuse.

   Mr. and Mrs. Morell Hibbard of Willet are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Merton Loomis.

   Mrs. Lorenzo Parsons entertained her Sunday-school class at a 6 o'clock tea

Thursday evening.

   D. W. Carr was in town Saturday.

   Mr. and Mrs. Will Pritchard were in Cincinnatus Sunday in attendance at the funeral of Eli Dickinson.

   Rev. J. J. Cowles gave a highly interesting report of the meeting of synod held in New York, to which he with P. H. McGraw was delegate, at the Sunday morn-service.

   The funeral of Billings Johnson, who died Friday morning of consumption, aged 70 years, was held at the residence of his son on north hill, Sunday at 1 o'clock. Burial in our rural cemetery.

   Mrs. D. S. Lamont and daughter Julia arrived from Washington, D. C. Saturday.

   Mrs. J. B. Lamont is not improving as was hoped.

   Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wood, Mrs. May Trapp, Mrs. C. D. McGraw, Mrs. C. C. Hammond, Misses Nellie Benjamin and Carrie Everingham attended the Y. P. S. C. E. rally at Cortland Wednesday evening.

   Mr. Bliss of Washington, D. C. was a guest of Mrs. A. D. Kinnie Saturday.

   Mrs. F. E. Webster entertained fourteen of her lady friends at a 7 o'clock tea Saturday evening.

   Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Wheelock are spending a few days in Apulia and Seneca Falls.

Dunlavey Doing Well.

   Dr. F. D. Reese has to-day received a letter from Principal F. D. Boynton of the Ithaca High school relative to the condition of young Dunlavey who was injured here in the football game last Saturday. Prof. Boynton says in part:

   "The physicians here think that he is doing very well indeed. He has a little headache, but otherwise is free from pain and lameness. The blow seems to have been on the side of the head just in front of the ear. The physicians think that your last opinion is the correct one, namely, that there is no fracture of the skull, and seem to think that he will be about in a short time. He can eat all right now. We have him in the hospital and he is having the best of care.

   "We feel very grateful to you for your generous kindness and feel ourselves under great obligations to you and also to Dr. Sornberger. Please thank him for us."

Cortland Normal School.

Compliments for the Normal.

   Art Education, a journal devoted to manu-mental training, published in New York City, has the following to say of the drawing exhibit of the Cortland Normal school at the State Teachers' association held at Saratoga last summer:

   This year Cortland Normal school did its best to show what can be done in the way of development in true seeing and free expression. The exhibit was not large nor was it showy, but it bore evidence of careful study. Following it, step by step, one found that from the lowest primary in the model school to the highest class of the Normal, each individual pupil had been obliged to exercise his powers of observation. This was not so apparent in some of the work from other schools.

Motorman Lyon's Injuries.

   The Ithaca Journal of last night says, Lewis S. Lyon, the motorman who was hurt in the electric car accident Monday, was operated on at the hospital this morning.

   Dr. White was in charge of the case, Dr. Burr Besemer performed the operation being assisted by Dr. Fish. Doctors Edward Morgan and Martin Besemer were present to advise. The patient was put under the influence of ether. The large bone running from the knee to the ankle was found to be fractured and the broken pieces removed and the bone wired together with silver wire. The small bone running parallel with the large one was also fractured. This was repaired also. A ruptured blood vessel produces a hemorrhage also which makes the case very complicated. It cannot be stated definitely yet whether the leg can be saved or not. The patient is doing well,

   The Journal also adds, it is said by men who claim to be posted that Monday's accident to the trolley car was caused by leaves accumulating and forming a cushion between the brakes and wheels, so that when the lever was applied the brake could not be made to press against the wheels, and when the car once got under full momentum on the descent it could not be controlled. Brushes, such as are attached in front of the wheels in winter, will now be used, and henceforth the track will be kept free from the troublesome leaves.

DIVERS DID THE CLEANING.

How the Baltimore Got Rid of Her Barnacles Without Docking.

   A United States cruiser in active service requires almost as much burnishing to keep her trim as does a silk hat. It isn't the brasses and metal work around her decks that cause the chief anxiety. It is her bottom. That fouls, particularly in southern seas, and it is necessary to dock her and clean away the barnacles.

   But docks are not always at hand. Lieutenant Commander Sebree, in discussing this question in the United States Naval institute, described for the first time the scheme worked by the United States ship Baltimore during the Chilean trouble. She was not docked for 11 months, and during eight months of that time she was in Chilean and Peruvian waters.

   The Baltimore, after being docked at Toulon, France, in February, 1891, sailed for Chile. Within four or five months after arriving in Chile she began to lose speed on account of a foul bottom.

   There were in the crew two seamen gunners, who had qualified as divers in the torpedo school at Newport, besides Peter Hanley, the gunner, who had also taken the course. It was decided to clean the bottom of the Baltimore by sending down divers. An iron ladder was let down from a launch alongside the Baltimore, and for use under the ship a wide Jacob's ladder was made on board. While cleaning the bottom the diver was always on this ladder, between it and the ship. He would stand, sit or lie down on the ladder, as happened to be most convenient.

   The divers used scrapers made of hard wood in the shape of a broad chisel. They were about 4 inches wide and 8 inches long, with the handle end rounded down. The diver chose the man who attended to the life line. Besides this man who attended the line four other men were in the launch. Two of them worked the pumps, and the other two attended to the bow and stern lines of the launch. The divers were limited to five hours' work a day, and they got $1 an hour in addition to their regular pay.

   The time taken to clean the bottom once and to clean one-third of it a second time was two months. The work was done under adverse circumstances in the harbor of Valparaiso, where frequently a sea would stop the work.

   The barnacles on the bottom of the Baltimore the first time she was cleaned averaged 2 3/4 inches in length. Some of them were more than 3 inches long.

They were often in clusters, so that they extended six inches or more from the ship's bottom.

   After the bottom was cleaned the gunner made an inspection and reported that the cleaning was well done. Lieutenant Commander Sebree says that, in his opinion, a vessel can be kept practically clean and suffer no serious loss of speed for at least a year by the use of her divers at a cost of $600 for labor and about $600 for the pump.

BREVITIES.

   — In police court this morning a drunk was sentenced to ten days or ten dollars.

   —Louis Aldrich's "My Partner" company are registered at the Cortland and Dexter Houses.

   —A ten-cent supper will be served at the Memorial Baptist chapel to night regardless of weather.

   —One lady in the Universalist church has sold sixty tickets for the harvest concert Friday night.

   —The Alpha Chautauqua circle will meet with Miss L. Hawley, 73 Railroad-st., Saturday evening, Oct. 27, at 7:30 P. M.

   —The total number of students registered in all departments at Harvard university this year is 3,206, as against 3,064 last year.

   —Attention in directed to the notice in another column calling in the Cortlandville town bonds which are due and payable Dec. 1, 1894, with accrued interest at The National bank of Cortland.

   —The Ladies' Literary club met with Miss Carrie D. Halbert at 18 Lincoln-ave. this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. "The Life, Character and Works of

William Cullen Bryant" was the subject for discussion.

   —The week of prayer for young men throughout the world in the Young

Men's Christian association will be observed November 11 to 19. The Cortland association is making arrangements to observe these meetings.

   —The "poverty party," which was announced last Sunday morning to be

given on Friday evening of this week by the Ladies' Aid society of the Presbyterian church, has been postponed until next week Tuesday evening.

   —Lincoln lodge will celebrate their twenty-ninth anniversary at their lodge rooms on Wednesday evening, Oct. 24. Good music will be in attendance and supper will be furnished free. All friends of temperance are invited.

   —Hiram McKay was arrested at Binghamton last night by Officer James Edwards charged with grand larceny. He has been brought to Cortland and is lodged in jail. His examination is postponed until to-morrow. Publication of further particulars is omitted to-day to avoid embarrassing the officers who are on the track of alleged accomplices of McKay.

   —The mechanical drawing class will meet to-night at 8:15 o'clock in the Y. M. C. A. parlor. The class now numbers seventeen members, and they will receive their first lesson in drawing to-night. Prof. Cleaves is instructor. If any more young men are desirous of taking up this branch of study they must be sure to be present to-night.

EDDIE REID.

Operation Performed and He is Doing Nicely.

   The case of Eddie Reid, son of Mr. and Mrs. John O. Reid, who was taken to the New York hospital to have an operation performed for consumption of one of the bones of his leg and foot, was in a worse condition than was at first anticipated. The operation was performed Saturday and Mr. and Mrs. Reid have hopes of saving the limb. The dead bones of the foot and a part of the leg below the knee were removed and the first pain that he has suffered was yesterday when the leg was dressed. Eddie is a brave little man and Sunday night was very bright.

   Mr. Reid received this morning a postal from him and from Mrs. Reid stating that Eddie was doing as well as could be expected.