VICTORY FOR JAPAN

Japanese troops firing at Chinese positions.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, November 5, 1894.

VICTORY FOR JAPAN.

COUNT YAMAGATA CONTINUES HIS VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN.

The Last Barrier In the Way of a Movement on Moukden Swept Away—Clever Tactics Employed by the Japanese. Chinese Made Little Resistance—Victors Welcomed by the Chinese Residents.

   YOKOHAMA, NOV. 5.—Advices received here from the front show that there has been heavy fighting in the country just north of Port Arthur. The dispatches received are brief and are silent on some important points.

   It appears that Field Marshall Oyama divided his forces. While one division landed on the east coast of the peninsula north of Talienwan, another division was detached with orders to affect a landing near Kinchow and to proceed thence and join the main body of the army.

   This operation was a complete success. The Japanese encountered no Chinese warships, and the transports reached Kayenko and disembarked troops, guns, horses and munitions in safety.

   Kinchow, which is a walled town and which was believed to be held by a large garrison, was immediately attacked. The outer defense was carried by the Japanese after a few hours' fighting. The Chinese made little further resistance and the Japanese were soon masters of the place.

   In the meantime the Japanese fleet which had convoyed the transports opened a heavy fire on Talienwan and Kakuyon (Kayenko). The firing scarcely ceased for many hours.

   Covered by the fire from the ships, the land force attacked and captured Talienwan in a brilliant fashion.

   The dispatches state that the losses were heavy. They also mention that an important naval engagement occurred Saturday, but gave no details.

   Saturday was the 42d anniversary of the birth of the mikado.

   There is great public rejoicing today over the victories thus far won by the Japanese armies.

   Up to the time of sending this dispatch there has been no confirmation of the capture of Port Arthur.

   Field Marshall Yamagata continues his victorious march.

   The division under General Tatsumi pushed forward and captured Fung Wang Ching. The enemy was scattered and fled in the direction of Takusan, Kaijoa and Hotenfu. No fighting is mentioned as having occurred at Fung Wang Ching, but it is alleged that 300 Chinese were killed at Taikai.

   Field Marshal Yamagata's official dispatch says that the detachment under General Tatsumi has occupied Fung Wang Ching, a fort which ranks in importance next to Moukden. The principal portion of the Chinese army fled toward Moukden and the remainder in the direction of Haicheng and Takusan.

   The Chinese inhabitants who have been plundered by Chinese soldiers welcomed the Japanese army. The Japanese captures to the present are: 55 cannon, 1,500 small arms, 20,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, 2,500,000 rounds for small arms and a quantity of other material.

READY FOB BUSINESS.

Chinese Form a New Element in California Politics.

   SAN FRANCISCO, NOV. 5.—Fifty-seven Chinese have registered as voters here. They, of course, claim to have been born on American soil. It is said they have formed an organization and elected a "boss" who has announced that he is ready to do business with the candidates. There are 2,000 native born Chinese in California and it is said many of them will vote two years hence. This would mean a new element in California politics.

Nut Grass Becoming a Scourge.

   WASHINGTON, NOV. 5.—The nut grass, or cocoa is proving to be almost as much of an infection in the South as the Russian thistle is to the Northwest. For that reason the agricultural department will soon issue a special bulletin urging a general campaign against this grass before it gets too firm a hold.

Charles H. Parkhurst.

Parkhurst Preaches Against Tammany.

   NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst departed from his late custom of remaining from political discussion in his Sunday sermons and launched into a denunciatory invection against Tammany Hall. Madison Square Presbyterian church was filled. The doctor said that unless the condition of affairs in New York was changed God would speedily wreak his vengeance on this city as he did on Sodom and Gomorrah.

                               

                               PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

                                     The Eve of Election.

   To-morrow is Election day. All that can well be said concerning the candidates and constitutional amendments then to be passed upon has already been said, and it now only remains to register and declare the will of the people. The obligation rests upon every voter more solemnly than is usual—for the issues are to the last degree important—to go to the polls and cast his ballot for what he believes to be the right. If he desires to endorse the theft of a legislature, murder at Troy, fraud and violence at Gravesend and Brooklyn and unspeakable corruption in New York City, he should vote for David B. Hill, the representative of the Tammany machine which is responsible for all these iniquities and which is now ruling the Democracy of the state and metropolis and riding roughshod over every member of the party who dares to raise his voice in protest against brutality and crime. If he wants to endorse party perfidy and dishonor, and to continue the prostration of industries, the reduction of wages, the financial and physical suffering of the last two years, he should vote for the party which has put upon the country a tariff bill which no one will own and which every one denounces, and the threat and the accomplishment of which have wrought all this ruin. If he is opposed to all this destruction, iniquity and outrage he should vote the Republican ticket.

   The issues this year have passed beyond the limits of partisanship. It is time for men to forget that they are partisans and try to be patriots. Republicanism to-day in city, state and nation represents patriotism, and thousands who have heretofore voted the Democratic ticket will so recognize it. We believe that when the votes come to be counted to-morrow night the result will show that the Republican leader in this state was correct when he said that last year there was a tidal wave, but this year there will be an avalanche.

Photo copied from Grip's Historical Souvenir of Cortland.

Mr. Mantanye Favors the Amendments.

   A campaign falsehood which has been industriously circulated by Democrats in this vicinity is that Hon. W. J. Mantanye, delegate from this district to the constitutional convention, is opposed to the proposed constitutional amendments and especially the apportionment amendment. Mr. Mantanye authorizes us to say that he is heartily in favor of every citizen's voting "For" all the propositions which are to be submitted, and shall so vote himself and has so advised every one who has consulted him. He regards the success of the apportionment amendment as being fully as important as the election of the Republican state ticket.

Which Will Ride?

   An election bet was made this morning between Frank Hilligus and I. G. Diamond. If Morton is elected the latter wheels the former in a wheelbarrow from the Cortland House to the E., C. & N. depot. If Hill is elected the tables will be turned and Mr. Hilligus will do the wheeling. Mr. Hilligus was in favor of a plunge in the river, but Mr. Diamond had not forgotten the bath he took in falling off a wheel into the Tioughnioga at the Port Watson-st. bridge. Mr. Hilligus claims that the reason that Mr. Diamond chose South Main-st. for paying the bet is that he has an interested friend residing in that section of the town. The result of the bet can be seen at 9 A. M. Wednesday.

HE WAS AFRAID.

It was a Cabbage Deal and the Bet is Withdrawn.

   Ralph Butler of Homer is a pronounced Democrat. Saturday he attended the Hill rally and after the speech went over to Harrison Wells' produce store to sell his cabbages. He said he had a carload of them. Mr. Wells offered him $3 per ton. Mr. Butler was frantic. He expected to get $8 or $9 per ton for them. Mr. Wells told him that last year under the McKinley law and a protective tariff those prices obtained, but not under [tariff] free cabbage. This led to a political discussion and Mr. Butler offered to bet anything that Hill would be elected.

   "All right," Mr. Wells said, "you think he will. We will make a little deal in cabbage. If Hill is elected I will pay you $9 per ton for your carload of cabbage. If Morton is elected, you shall deliver them to me free."

   This was a corker, but after pondering over it for a time Mr. Butler said he would do it. Mr. Wells told him he wanted him to cut and deliver them Monday and Tuesday (to-day and to-morrow). Again Mr. Butler was shaky and he finally told Mr. Wells he would see him to-day.

   At 3 o'clock this afternoon a STANDARD man was in Mr. Wells' office to see if he had heard any more of Mr. Butler. Just then in walked the man in question.

   "I've come to squeal," he said, "I want to sell my cabbage, but I am afraid to take it in that way."

   A general shout arose. It was time to go to press and the reporter left Mr. Butler trying to sell his cabbage to Mr. Wells at some price. He isn't so confident to-day of Hill's election. If the Democratic party should pull through, Mr. Butler has lost a better price for his cabbage than he will see this year.

Brown-Goodale.

   Wednesday evening, Oct, 24, a happy company of nearly one hundred and fifty people gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fayette Goodale to witness the marriage of their daughter Jesse Lelia to Roswell D. Brown by Rev. W. L. Warren of Summerhill. At 7:30 o'clock, to the strains of the wedding march played by Mrs. Irene Stone, the happy couple took their place beneath an arch of evergreens, from which was suspended a bell of ferns and chrysanthemums, and their pastor, with a few words fitly spoken, made them one for life.

   The bride was tastily robed in white and carried a bouquet of white roses. The groom wore the usual suit of black. Congratulations and good wishes were followed by delicious refreshments, under the direction of Mrs. Jane Brown, an aunt of the bride. Numerous presents, both useful and beautiful, testified to the high esteem in which the young couple are held by relatives and friends. Among the guests were friends from Marathon, Lapeer. Cortland. Sempronius, Summerhill, and Syracuse.

BREVITIES.

   —No paper to-morrow, Election day.

   —The board of trustees hold their regular meeting to-night,

   —The regular monthly meeting of the C. A. A. will occur at 8 o'clock this evening.

   —Election returns and "Fogg's Ferry" at the Opera House to-morrow evening.

   —Water pipes are being deposited in Squires-st. preparatory to a new line of water works in that direction.

   —A meeting of the Woman's Relief Corps will be held for inspection tomorrow, (Tuesday) at 3 P. M. sharp.

   —In police court this morning George Luce, after spending the night in the "cooler" for public intoxication, was discharged.

   —G. A. Tisdale is authorized by a New York firm to draw on them for any sum of money to place in bets of $100 to $45 upon the election of Morton.

   —A prominent Republican of Cortland on Saturday made a bet of $100 to $50 with a leading Democrat of Truxton upon the election of Morton and Saxton.

   —Tomorrow is Election day and a legal holiday. No paper will be issued from The STANDARD office, but full returns will be in the Wednesday's issue.

   —While Joseph Cleary was setting off some fireworks in front of Charles F. Brown's drug store Saturday evening he burned his hands quite painfully. He is able to be at work this morning.

   —The sheriff's sale of the stock of Mr. E. B. Richardson's Cycle House occurred at 11 o'clock this morning. The entire stock was bid in by George W. Houk for the Eclipse Bicycle Co. for $851.

   —Meals will be served upon Election day in W. C. T. U. rooms commencing at 11:30 A.M. Also in the evening a dime social will be held, to which all members and friends are cordially invited.

   —A new social club known as the Crescent club will give their first of a series of private dancing parties in Empire hall on Friday evening of this week. McDermott's orchestra will furnish music.

   —The New Woodstock drum corps, which was in attendance at the Republican mass meeting Saturday evening, which is under the leadership of Mr. E. W. Moffett of Fayetteville, was one of the best that ever visited Cortland.

   —The union meeting at the Y. M. C. A. rooms yesterday was well attended, nearly one hundred being present. Rev. C. E. Hamilton delivered an address appropriate to the occasion and full of valuable suggestions to young people.

   —The annual meeting of the lot owners of the Cortland Rural cemetery will be held at the office or Judge J. E. Eggleston this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Three trustees will be elected to fill the places of R. B. Smith, H. P. Goodrich and F. Conable,

   —Miss Grace E. Clark, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Mr. William F. Clark, died at 4 o'clock yesterday morning of gastritis. The funeral will be held from her late home, 12 Venette-st., at 9 A. M. Tuesday. Burial at Lansingville, Tompkins county.

   —A well-known Democrat, who attended the Republican mass meeting Saturday night, returned home and told his wife, who was also a Democrat, that he was going to vote the Republican ticket. She admonished him and this morning she is sick abed.

   —Job Stafford was arrested Saturday on the charge of assault in the second degree. The warrant was sworn out by George N. Remone, who claims that Stafford assaulted him at Blodgett Mills. Stafford's bail was fixed at $500 and the examination was adjourned till November 14 at 10 A. M.

   —The Tioughnioga club has arranged to have the election returns brought to the club rooms to-morrow night, where they will be read. Members who desire to get the latest news without getting into the crowd can find a convenient and comfortable place at the club rooms. Light refreshments will be served.

   —Some of the STANDARD'S carrier boys are possessed of valuable accomplishments outside of the successful delivery of papers. Charlie Mead, one of the carriers at the south end of the village, is learning to be a baker under the instruction of Richard Welch of T. M. Marks' bakery. Charlie is very proud just now of a huge Washington pie which is eliciting the admiration of all who have seen it and is pronounced to be delicious.

A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

Miss Martha Roe Slipped Upon a Paster and Fell.

   This morning at about 8:45 o'clock Miss Martha Roe was going from her home on Railroad-st. to the Normal school. It was raining hard and the walks were very wet. Just as she turned from Greenbush-st. upon the Normal grounds, she stepped upon one of the "Fogg's Ferry" dates which have been pasted all over the walks for a few days. The rain had moistened the paste and the paper slipped beneath her foot and she fell heavily upon her right side, She was wholly unable to rise and lay there in the rain. Mr. H. M. Kellogg from his house across the street saw the fall and noticed that Miss Roe did not stir. He rushed over and with the aid of one of the young men students who came up at the time helped Miss Roe to her room in the Normal building. Dr. A. J. White was sent for, but he was out of town. Drs. Nash and Johnson were then summoned. Miss Roe was placed in a chair and carried home where an examination was made. The doctors found no bones broken, but found the muscles of the thigh bone had been very severely strained. It will be a considerable time before she will recover the use of her limb again and be able to walk as usual.

   The pasting of paper upon the walks is to be condemned very severely, and should be absolutely prohibited by the village trustees. After a rain and after the paste is softened up they become worse than glare ice and are a danger and a menace to every pedestrian.

His Head was Cut Off.

   As the vestibule train on the D., L, & W. R. R., which passes through Cortland at 4:20 P. M., was leaving Syracuse for Oswego Saturday night at 5:30 o'clock, Andrew H. Schilling of Oswego rushed across the north end of the station and tried to board one of the forward cars to go home. When he took hold of the railing he was jerked suddenly around, and losing his hold on the handlebar, he was thrown between the cars, and the wheels ran over his neck, severing the head almost entirely from the body. The train did not stop, and only one person on it saw the horrible accident.