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| Oliver Curtis Perry. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday,
April 11, 1895.
ESCAPED FROM PRISON.
OLIVER
CURTIS PERRY, THE NOTED TRAIN ROBBER.
Five
Convicts Assaulted a Keeper and Skipped From Matteawan
Asylum—No
Clue.
NEW YORK, April 11.—A Herald special from Poughkeepsie says: Oliver Curtis
Perry, the noted train robber, whose exploits, while trying to rob the car of
the American Express company on the New York Central railroad in 1893 caused
great excitement, escaped from the Matteawan state asylum with four companions
last night. They assaulted a keeper and escaped through the scuttle. Perry's
companions were Patrick McGuire of New York; Michael O'Donnell of New York;
John Quigley of Astoria and Frank Davis of New York.
It was shortly after 11 o'clock when the
escape occurred. Night Watchman Carmody, who has been connected with the asylum
for many years, was making his rounds. He had passed from the main building
into the isolation annex, where the most dangerous prisoners are kept, when he
was attacked by five men. They overpowered him, took his keys, and fled toward
the chapel adjoining. Carmody followed as soon as he recovered from the attack shouting
the alarm, "They have escaped, they have escaped." The cries of the keeper rang
through the building, and the doorman at the main corridor ran to Superintendent
H. S. Allison's apartments and notified him.
In the meantime Perry and his four
companions had reached the chapel, and from there made their way to the roof through
the scuttle. Perry was in the lead. He slid down the roof to the eaves and then
dropped to the ground a distance of twenty or thirty feet. Dr. Allison,
followed by an army of attendants, was scurrying in all directions by this
time, guarding all avenues, while the greatest excitement prevailed among the
inmates in the asylum.
Night Watchman Carmody fired at the fleeing
prisoners once, but the shot did not take effect. One by one the escaping prisoners
dropped from the chapel roof and disappeared in the darkness. The guards rushed
out of the main building and around to the outside of the chapel to head off
the men, but four of the prisoners had made good their escape. The fifth man
had been too slow. He was hanging suspended from the eaves of the chapel
building when the first of the guards reached the outside. Realizing that he
would drop into the arms of the guard, he hastily drew himself up on the roof
again and disappeared behind a projecting chimney.
Dr. Allison lost no time in getting a searching
party started. A squad of a dozen men was started in every direction to scour
the country, while another line of guards was placed around the chapel to wait
for daylight. McGuire is a very dangerous man and this is his second escape
from Matteawan.
Up to 10 o'clock this morning Dr. Allison
had not been able to discover how the men had got out of their cells. The five
men occupied separate rooms, which were widely separated. Night Watchman
Carmody has always been considered a reliable man. He has been unable to give
any very definite explanation of what transpired. He made a tour of the
building about forty minutes before and found everything all right.
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OVERFLOWING STREAMS.
Peaceful
Rivers Turned Into Rushing Torrents.
HEAVY
DAMAGE SURE TO RESULT.
Farmers
In Many Sections Already Suffer Severely by Reason of Inundated Lands
—Serious
Landslides and Washouts On Several Railways.
WILKES-BARRE, April 11.—The Susquehanna
river is 18 feet above low water mark. The lowlands on the west side of the
river, between Pittston and Buttonwood, are flooded. Many of the truck farmers
had to remove their live stock to higher grounds in a hurry. The flood was
unlooked for, and the farmers on the lowlands will suffer the loss of an early
crop of vegetables.
John Merritt's farm on the Kingston road is
covered by four feet of water. The water in the roadway between Wilkes-Barre
and Kingston is four feet deep. The electric car tracks are under two feet of
water. At the bend in the river, near Plymouth, the water covers enough land to
give it the appearance of a lake. If the river continues to rise it is feared
that much more damage will be done.
One Life
Lost at Kingston.
KINGSTON, N. Y., April 11.—Details of the
damage from the spring flood in Ulster and Delaware counties are still coming
in.
Joseph Rosepaugh, keeper of the storage
reservoir of the Kingston Water company, was drowned while trying to save his
household furniture from destruction. His body has not been recovered.
The Ulster and Delaware trains were resumed,
the breaks having been temporarily repaired, but extensive damage has been done
along this line and also on the Delaware and Hudson canal, which is still
inoperative.
Farmers on the lowlands have lost all their
manure which had been drawn out in heaps for use on the spring crops. Much
damage to property in Saugerties and Rosendale is reported. The water is subsiding
rapidly.
Mohawk
and Oriskany Rivers.
LITTLE FALLS, N. Y., April 11.—The Mohawk
river is rising fast, and if it continues, much damage will be done throughout
the valley, it having already overflowed its banks in many places. The recent
warm rains have melted what snow remained, and all of its tributaries are
increased to nearly double their usual size.
At Oriskany the river has overflown its
banks until the surrounding country looks like a lake, with here and there a
tree. The fences are all under water.
At Ilion the flats are covered and lack only
about a foot from submerging the road running from the railroad to the village.
Several
People Narrowly Escaped.
SUSQUEHANNA, Pa., April 11.—The Susquehanna
river has reached the highest point since 1865. Half of the Susquehanna and
Oakland iron bridge was washed away. Several people who were on the structure
at the time had narrow escapes, the most notable being the case of Arthur
Christian, who was carried down the river with the debris and was rescued after
two hours' hard work by the people on shore.
INCOME TAX LITIGATION.
Further
Suits Against the Law Commenced.
ONE ON
BEHALF OF A RAILROAD.
Jere
Wilson Also Has a Rod in Pickle For the Offending Measure and Will
Commence
Proceedings Shortly. Revised Regulations About Completed.
NEW YORK, April 11.—Another suit to test the
constitutionality of the income tax law has been instituted in the circuit
court of the United States. It is an action in equity brought by Charles Allen
of Greenfield, Mass., against the Illinois Central Railroad company, et al.
The counsel of the complainant are Joseph H.
Choate, Clarence A. Seward, William D. Guthrie, David Willcox and Charles
Steele.
In his bill of complaint the complainant,
after setting forth the organization of the railroad company, the amount of
personal property owned by it and other matters in relation thereto, declared that
he is informed that the company intends to pay, under the provisions of the
income tax law, a tax of 2 per cent on all its net profits and income for the
year 1894.
The bill then avers that the income tax law
is unconstitutional in that if said tax is collectable upon the company's
income and profits it is a direct tax in respect of the railway property,
fixtures and appurtenances operated and owned by the defendant company by being
imposed upon the income and profits thereof, the same being real estate, and is
likewise a direct tax in respect of its personal property, by being imposed
upon the income and profits thereof, which direct taxes are not apportioned
among the several states as required by the constitution of the United States.
It is further averred that if the income tax
be held not to be a direct tax, then its provisions are nevertheless
unconstitutional, in that they are not uniform throughout the United States as
required by the constitution.
The non-uniformity of the law is then pointed
out at length, after which the bill declares that the exemption of mutual
insurance companies, building and loan associations, savings banks and
institutions constructed on the mutual plan, etc., is unconstitutional in that
these exemptions operate to arbitrarily free said companies from the payment of
their just proportion of taxation.
The bill further sets forth that the tax is
unconstitutional for the reason that it impairs vested property rights; that
all persons or corporations taxed may be deprived of their property without due
process of law, and that
all persons or corporations taxed may be compelled to produce and disclose
their private books and papers in order to make them liable for a penalty or to
forfeit their property, all of which is against the express terms of the constitution.
The complainant therefore prays that the
defendants be restrained from voluntarily complying with the income tax law,
and that he be granted such other relief as the court may deem meet.
DROWNED
WHILE SAILING.
Carl Munson
and a Young Lady Meet Death at Titusville, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Munson of 16 Dowd-st.
have received word from Titusville, Fla., that their son Carl Munson was
drowned Sunday afternoon while sailing with a young lady on the Indian river.
The lady is also reported to have been drowned and her body has not been found.
The body of the young man has been recovered, and was buried at Titusville
to-day.
The deceased left Cortland the last of last
October for Titusville, where he has been learning the printer's trade in the
Brevard County Star office. He would have been 18 years of age May 14 and
besides his parents leaves a brother, Orfee Munson of Rickard-st., a half
brother, Melvin Munson of Port Watson-st. and a half sister, Mrs. Cyrus Buck of
16 Dowd-st.
Bought a
Drug store.
Arrangements were yesterday completed by
which George I. Watson purchased of C. F. Brown the drug store on the corner of
Main and Tompkins-st., over which he has presided for the past two years as
chief clerk. Mr. Watson has been a valued clerk for Mr. Brown for three years,
the first year being in the upper store. He is a competent pharmacist and his
strict integrity, excellent character and genial ways have won for him many
friends who will give him their cordial congratulations open the new
enterprise. He will make some improvements in the store and will carry the same
high class of goods as formerly. Mr. Brown continues to conduct the upper store
as heretofore.
Homer
Leads the Van.
That is, Homer never follows, or rather D.
E. Shepard never was known to do such a thing. His mammoth [sic] department
store of two floors is brimful of new and desirable "high grade goods at
low grade prices" nothing like it between Syracuse and Binghamton. People flocking
from all directions anxious to take advantage the present offerings in the way
of attractive prices. Mr. Shepard has but one price and that price challenges
any and all competition, which is a direct result of a business conducted on a
low percentage of expense with many lives under one roof and quick sales and
small profits as a motto. As for capes, jackets, suits, skirts, dress goods,
carpets, crockery and millinery, any person contemplating the purchase of
either of the above named can put aside for a rainy day at least 12 1/2 per cent by selecting from this stock, say
nothing of the advantage gained by having a choice assortment to choose from. A
word to the wise is sufficient.
—Adv.
GRAND
JURY REPORTS.
Seven
Cases Before It—One Indictment Found.
The grand jury of the April term of the
court of oyer and terminer, having been in session for three days, closed its
work last night and reported to the court, finding one indictment only, and
that against Dell Hart, charged with rape upon the person of Ina Garlick of
Homer. The defendant was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. He was held in
$1,000 bail for appearance for trial at the next court of sessions in
September, with permission to appear at the special term in May and change his
plea.
Seven cases were presented to the grand
jury. Perhaps a case which created as much interest as any was that of Nelson
Burgess, charged with poisoning food to be eaten by his wife, Minerva Burgess.
The grand jury for reasons which seemed sufficient to them, after hearing the
testimony of two witnesses, declined to hear further evidence and did not
sustain the charge.
When the grand jury had made its report,
Judge Smith thanked them for their efficient service and then after discharging
them, adjourned court.
This grand jury was a very strong one. It
was composed of the best citizens of the county. Its foreman was Harrison Wells
and its clerk G. J. Maycumber.
It did its work thoroughly and well. Before
making its report the grand jury took occasion to extend to District Attorney
Burlingame a unanimous vote of thanks for the exceedingly able was in which he
had presented the cases and had conducted the investigations.
BREVITIES.
—To-morrow will be Good Friday.
—Rev. J. J. MCLOGHLIN made a business trip
to-day to Syracuse.
—The mid-term examinations at the Normal
began this afternoon.
—The quarterly meeting of the Universalist church
will be held to-morrow night.
—Good Friday services will be observed in Grace
church to-morrow at 10:30 A. M. and at 7:30 P. M.
—The first game of ball of this season was
played yesterday afternoon between two picked up nines. Score 9 and 9.
—Sheriff Hilsinger has added to the
appearance of the front office in the court house with new linoleum carpeting,
—The Alpha Chautauqua circle will meet with
Mrs. F. J. Doubleday, 44 Port Watson-st. Monday evening, April 15. Roll call
(Easter).
—A representative of the Barnum & Bailey show was in town
yesterday arranging with the Hitchcock Co. for a motor cycle to
ride in their parade.
—Remenyi, who is to appear at the music
festival in June has turned his wanderings of the last twelve years to literary
account, and has written a book on Japanese art.
—One drunk was brought before Justice Bull
this morning by Officer
Edwards.
He is spending three days in jail as a consequence.
—In the window of Ament & Brazie's store
to-day can be seen a fine brood of Easter chickens which are said to have been
hatched last night.
—Warner Rood, manager, and Mr. Brayton, one
of the owners of the Cortland Opera House, were in town Friday, with a view of
having Messrs. Tenney & Bennett refit the scenery at that house.— Marathon Independent.
—The funeral of Edward P. Ashworth, who died
yesterday, will be held from the home of his brother, Thomas Ashworth at 52
Owego-st. at 8:30 o'clock to-morrow evening. The remains will be taken on the
11:20 train to Hoboken for burial.
—The ladies of the Y. M. C. A. Auxiliary, since
accepting J. A. Tisdale & Co.'s
generous offer, have appointed their committees, and will soon be ready to
receive orders for the flour. A more extended notice will be published
Saturday, April 13.
—We publish to-day on our fourth page the
official time table of the through Cortland and Homer electric car and the
local car. This will be published but once in its complete form and it is
advised that every reader cut out this time table, paste it upon a piece of
cardboard and preserve it for future reference.
Choosing
One From Three.
It sounds like a self-evident proposition that
"She Couldn't Marry Three," but in the play of that name which Miss
Lillian Kennedy brings to the Opera House
Tuesday and Wednesday evening, April 16 and 17, it is shown what a lot of
trouble may fall upon a girl because she can only marry one man at a time. This
most charming little soubrette Miss Kennedy has created in this play a new type
of maidenly sweetness. Bess Brandon, the heroine of the play, is a fisherman's
daughter, who is obliged to choose her husband from two good men and one bad
one, who are courting her at once. She chooses wisely, an honest man, but the
rejected rascal pursues her and him with fiendish malignity. There is plenty of
excitement in the play, especially in the final climax where the villain tries
to tie the hero to the railroad track upon which an express train is
approaching. A real
passenger locomotive steams upon the stage in this scene and for realism the
tableau has never been beaten. The scenery showing some beautiful views of the
seacoast has been specialty painted for this production. Of course Miss
Kennedy's songs and dances add greatly to the brightness of the play. Wednesday
evening Miss Kennedy will produce her latest comedy success, "A Midnight
Frolic," a story of Kentucky life.
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