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NICARAGUA
IMBROGLIO.
Fears
That Internal Uprising May Result.
UNCLE
SAM TAKES PRECAUTIONS.
Three
Vessels Dispatched to Nicaragua to Protect the Canal Interests—No
Official
Advices as to the Reply Made to Great Britain's Demands.
WASHINGTON, April 30.—While there were many
wild rumors flying about the city touching the state of affairs at Corinto,
some to the effect that the difficulty had been patched up and that the British
had withdrawn on the basis of a submission of the British claim to arbitration
and others to show that the British had extended their original program so as
to now include the dispatch of a fleet of warships to collect a debt owing by
Honduras, it appeared none of them had any real basis, or at least they failed
to attract the interest of the state department, which evidently looks upon the
possibility of a revolution in Nicaragua as the phase of the case possessing
great importance just now and which it regards as the one absolutely essential
to provide against, so far as it threatens American interests, among which, of
course, are included those of the Nicaragua canal.
The story of a contemplated onslaught on
Honduras is regarded as absurd, as there is no justification for such action.
If the British have any claims against that country they certainly do not grow
out of the insult offered to the British officials, on which Great Britain has
made the issue in the Nicaragua case, and if there be any claims for ill-treatment
of individuals, they would first be pressed by ordinary diplomatic courses
before they are made the basis of a naval demonstration.
So far as the rumors of arbitration are
concerned, the state department was not advised up to the close of office hours
and did not credit the story, but that it expects a settlement of the trouble
between Great Britain and Nicaragua in a short time is evidenced by the fact
that they still express confidence in the payment of the [$75,000] indemnity.
Some sudden and unexpected orders issued to
United States naval vessels caused a sensation for a time until the purpose of
the orders was explained.
The Alert, which has been stationed for a
month or more at Panama watching the progress of the revolutionary movement in
Columbia, was ordered to proceed at once to San Juan del Sur, the nearest cable
point to Corinto.
The Atlanta, now on her way from Kingston,
Jamaica, to Key West, and expected to arrive at the latter place at any moment,
will find awaiting her orders to sail at once to Greytown, the eastern terminus
of the proposed Nicaragua canal.
The Montgomery, now at Mobile, will follow
the Atlanta on May 7 with the Nicaragua canal commission board.
The Monterey having sailed Sunday from
Acupulco direct for Panama, is not expected to touch in at Corinto, and as she
is now beyond the reach of orders by wire, she will probably be allowed to
relieve the Alert on guard at Panama, whence she can be ordered back to Nicaragua
if occasion arises in the future.
Secretary Herbert explained briefly the
meaning of these orders. He said that the movement of ships had absolutely
nothing to do with the present occupation of Corinto by the British, that being
a matter to be settled between the Nicaraguans and the British. The real
purpose of the orders was to guard American interests in Nicaragua against the
consequence of a possible revolution which may result from the disturbed
condition of the country.
Being asked what measure of protection the
Nicaraguan commission would receive in pursuance of its work of inspecting the
line of the canal, the secretary said the Montgomery would remain at Greytown while
the commission was in the interior, and with two ships, one on one side and one
on the other, would surely be force enough to protect the commission and all
other American interests that otherwise might be endangered by a revolution.
The action taken by Secretary Herbert may be
attributed to the visit to Washington of ex-Senator Warner Miller of the Nicaragua
Canal company and of some reports made by him on the basis of private reports
as to the real condition of affairs in Nicaragua and to those coming to the
Nicaraguan minister directly.
Certainly the character of the United States
vessels which have been ordered to Nicaragua, is a sufficient evidence that
Secretary Herbert does not expect them to come into hostile conflict with the
British ships, for if it comes to that, the small cruisers Atlanta and
Montgomery would find themselves opposed to the whole British West India
squadron, while on the Pacific side the old corvette Alert would be left
single-handed against the British Royal Arthur, Wild Swan and Satellite.
In Mr. Miller's conferences with Secretary
Gresham and other cabinet officers he presented a very strong case on the
urgency of the situation and the menace to American control of the canal. He
brought out clearly the fact that the British threatened to go to Greytown and
to San Juan del Sur, the two important points on the Atlantic and Pacific ends
of the canal. The cabinet officers were impressed with Mr. Miller's statement
of the case and one of them characterized it as the strongest presentation thus
far made. It was soon after this that the orders to the American war vessels
were issued.
TURNED
THEIR BACK.
Nicaragua
Indignant at the United States' Action.
NEW YORK, April 30.—The Herald's Managua
dispatch says: In an interview yesterday a leading statesman said, Our
government has received official advices from Washington by which we gather
that the Americans have turned their back upon us and refuse to succor us in
the hour of trial. The English have at least pluck in their favor. They have
the insolence to defy through us the entire American continent, while the
United States can never justify its weakness of action, which will remain a
blot upon its history. Weak and small as our nation is, we have shown more
courage than the United Stated, who encouraged us, only to desert us at the
last moment. In concluding the interview he said he would have preferred to see
the much vaunted Monroe doctrine in a more dignified death.
The
Nicaragua Affair.
WASHINGTON, April 30.—Secretary Gresham and
the Nicaraguan minister conferred again to-day. It is believed that Nicaragua
has replied to a suggestion made looking to the withdrawal of the British
troops and the payment of the indemnity in London in fifteen days. The cabinet
held a short meeting to-day. It is believed that the Nicaragua affair was
discussed.
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
Clean
Food and Pure Water.
No doubt man in the missing link stage would
have considered man at the present day very cranky and finikin [sic] in regard
to the cleanliness he considers necessary in the preparation of food. It is
just as little doubtful that man 600 years hence would be considered just as
cranky and finikin by man of the present day if we of the present could look
forward and see the measures taken A. D. 2395 to render food clean and water
pure.
The purest water is believed to be that
which wells up from great depths under ground. But all water ordinarily should
be either filtered or boiled before it is drunk. The boiling kills the disease
microbes. Many outbreaks of typhoid fever have been directly traced to impure drinking
water. Never drink water that has stood uncovered over night in a room. Where
cows are allowed to slake thirst in muddy or stagnant pools, they swallow
millions of disease microbes, more or less of which are bound to be swallowed
by persons who drink the milk.
One should not be foolishly scared over
bacteria. At the same time it is only common sense to take measures to swallow
as few of them as possible. Most people are very great sinners in the matter of
letting food remain uncovered. In every household
a fine dust is constantly being powdered over everything. It sifts upon food
that is left uncovered even a little while. What the person who eats the food
devours in addition to it often reappears in various bodily ailments.
◘ That new
horseless carriage in Springfield, Mass., has been so perfected that it is now
in operation. Its inventor claims that it costs only a cent an hour to run. A
vehicle for two constructed like the ordinary "buggy" weighs 600
pounds. The speed can be gauged at from 8 to 16 miles an hour, it is claimed, and
after it has been running 16 miles an hour there is no horse to rest, water,
feed and rub down. The nag that draws it never gets spavin, glanders or bots.
The nag is gasoline, so managed that an electric spark touches one drop of it
at a time, producing a slight explosion and rapid expansion of air. Finally the
nag is carried inside the Wagon and weighs only 130 pounds. If this vehicle
comes to be the vogue, then poor people can afford carriages.
◘ Times
are beginning to be good again. They certainly are. One of the signs that
people are able to buy things again is the fact that Haverhill lately shipped
by far the largest consignment of shoes which ever left the city in one week.
◘ Of
course everybody wants sound money.
◘ It would
not be strange if the year 1950 should find Japan one of the greatest nations
that ever was, as great even as the United States.
GAMBLING
AT ALL HAZARDS.
No enemies of good government are more
dangerous than those who attempt to breakdown and override constitutional
provisions. And yet such enemies abound and are constantly at work. They are
now doing their outrageous work at Albany. Cost what it may, they are
determined to ignore and trample down that section of the state constitution
which prohibits betting and gambling at horse races. It is astounding that any
set of men could get before the assembly a bill which would legalize what the
constitution distinctly says the legislature shall have no power to legalize.
Such is "the Percy-Gray bill," now before the assembly. There may be
a difference of opinion among some good citizens as the extent of crime and
immorality which race track gambling produces; but there can be no disagreement
among good citizens as to the duty of holding sacred the provision of the
constitution on this subject or indeed on any other. This notorious assault
upon our most sacred legal guaranties should go down before a swelling wave of
popular indignation.
We have some of this same dangerous element
in our comparatively virtuous community. The use, till recently, of 32 gambling
machines in the drinking places of this village [Cortland] shows that there are
not a few among us who hold in contempt the law against gambling, as indeed
they do the law against liquor selling. The cock pit that has been in constant
use, but now suppressed, and other gambling schemes yet to be ferreted out,
have the same significance. The vigilance of all law-loving citizens alone will
keep in check the evil sown by this class among us.
BICYCLING.
Just what shall be the rights and privileges
of bicyclists in the corporation is a question of some difficulty and delicacy.
Perhaps we should add, it is a serious question. If all who ride bicycles were
as considerate and discreet as the most of them are, the question would adjust
itself, and no law would be necessary; but here, as in all other cases, the
law is because of the few, and it is too bad that the many must be restricted
for the evil doing of the few. Fast riding, rudely warning people out of the
way, riding on sod by the sidewalk, especially when wet, and riding on newly
made lawns—these are indiscretions committed by the few and which the people
will not endure.
MUST THE
FIGHT COME ON?
It would seem that every warning had been
given, and all gentle influences employed, all explanations made, all
forbearance shown and all reasonable time given, in hope that those who are
doing business in open defiance of law would, of their own accord, yield to
public sentiment and the demand of the law. A few have been wise enough to do
this; but the great majority continue their illegal course. Nothing would seem
to be left to the people, and the village government, but a recourse to legal
coercion. We still have some hope that this may be avoided, for it will put
these men and the village and private citizens to large and avoidable expense,
and will bring on a strife which will embitter certain elements of community;
but, if the battle must come on, let it come on. It will be fought out. The
people are aroused and determined that, at last, the law should be obeyed and
their will, as repeatedly expressed at the ballot box, shall be respected. When
the end comes, there are some who will regret that they did not foresee the
result and accept the situation, while there are others still, not by any means
the least among the offenders, who will lament their unwisdom in lending aid or
encouragement to the lawbreakers.
A
Dangerous Practice.
A good many wheelmen have adopted the custom
of riding their wheels along the planks adjoining the rails of the electric
road just ahead of the cars. This is a
very dangerous practice and should be severely condemned. If a wheel should
strike an obstruction and the rider be unseated, or if a machine should give
way the rider would in all probabilities be thrown upon the track and would be
under the wheels of the car before it could be stopped. Such riding is
dangerous in the extreme and sends a shiver down the back of all who see it.
DAVID C.
WALLACE.
An Old
Mason Died at an Early Hour This Morning.
David C. Wallace, who was taken ill Sunday,
died at 5 o'clock this morning of rheumatism of the heart, aged 74 years.
The deceased was a prominent Mason, having
been a member of the order since 1862. He came from Mechanicsville to Cortland
about six years ago and has since made his home with his son, Mr. A. D.
Wallace. He was well known here and was a friend to every one.
He leaves two sons, Messrs. A. D. and William
A. Wallace, two nephews and two nieces, D. F, and J. H. Wallace and Misses
Marcia and Ada Wallace of Cortland, a son Charles of Watertown and a brother
and sister in Auburn.
Masonic services will be held from his late
home at the Brunswick at 9 A. M. to-morrow. The remains will be taken on the 10
o'clock train to Mechanicsville, Saratoga county, where they will be buried
with Masonic ceremonies.
BOARD OF
TRUSTEES.
Property
Owners Must Repair Sidewalks Before May 6.
The adjourned meeting of the board of
trustees was held in the clerk's office last evening.
A petition, which was presented by the
Cortland and Homer Traction Co,, for a franchise over the extension of Elm and
Railroad-sts,, was read and placed on file.
On motion, it was decided that the crosswalk,
just east of the corner of James-st.,
be moved to that corner.
On motion of Trustee Webb, it was decided to
purchase a carload of stone for crosswalks.
The bond of Mr. C. W. Collins as village treasurer
was accepted and placed on file.
It was moved and seconded that the clerk
notify the Traction company as to lights out on Arthur-ave., Fitz-ave. [West
Main] and Blodgett-st. and to notify them not to have them extinguished before
12 o'clock.
President Higgins and Trustee Webb were
appointed a committee to purchase three uniforms for the police.
The following bills were allowed and ordered
paid:
Street commissioner's pay roll, $240.30
W. F. Clark, rubber coats for firemen, 18.60
Police force, 103.50
F. A. Bickford, salary, 22.50
William Sever, labor, 10.80
Law publication, 6.75
Gas Light Co., 5.67
Loucks & Petrie, labor 3.57
Mrs. Jane Pope, rent of barn, 10.60
The board has directed property owners to
build and repair their walks before May 6 or they will be rebuilt by the street
commissioner at the property owner's expense.
The meeting was then adjourned till the next
regular meeting, which occurs next Monday evening.
Gleanings
of News From Our Twin Village.
Sautelle's circus will show in Homer on Wednesday,
May 15.
Mr. and Mm. George Paddock, who have been
spending the winter at the Hotel Windsor, have moved into their house on Fulton-st.
Miss Lizzie Whitney of Binghamton is attending
her cousin, Miss Hattie Green, who is ill at her home on Main-st.
F. E McCormick, who has been in the employ
of F. E. Williams since the latter went into the hardware business three years
ago, has resigned his position and will soon move to Binghamton, where he has
received two very promising offers of employment.
Mr. W. D. Eadie is temporarily assisting the
employees at F. E. Williams' store.
Invitations have been issued for the final
party of the Calumet Dancing club which will be held at Brockway hall next Friday
evening. This party will close a delightful series of similar entertainments
which have been held during the past winter. Orlando's harp orchestra of
Syracuse will furnish the music.
The Homer lodge, I.O.O.F., No. 99, will meet
this evening at their headquarters in the First National bank building, corner
Main and Wall-sts.
Several Homer people left town far New York
and vicinity this morning on the annual spring excursion over the D., L. & W. R. R. Among those who
left town to visit friends in and near the metropolis were Mrs. A. H. Bennett,
Miss Wolfe,
Messrs. T. Blackman and others. Mr. E. C. Olney leaves by this evening's train.
The list of advertised letters in the Homer
postoffice includes the names of George Bonney, M. L. Beattie and Addie Stone.
Persons calling for the same will please mention this notice.
"Gat" Murphy exhibited a twelve pound
snapping turtle on the street this morning. The captive was speared in the Tioughnioga
near the "deep hole." This incident should be a warning for the boys to
watch out for turtles when they go swimming this summer.
The Christian Endeavor society of the First
Baptist church will give a May day sociable in the parlors of the church upon Wednesday
evening, May 1. Interesting features of the entertainment will be provided and
ice cream and cake will be served as refreshments.
The ladies of Calvary Episcopal church will
give a nightcap social at the home of Mrs. John Day on South Main-st. this evening.
The music will be furnished by a Cortland orchestra. Admission 25 cts.
—F. B. Nourse is having new glass put in some
of his showcases to replace glass scratched by use.
—The ladies who recently edited the woman's
edition of the Elmira Advertiser
announce that the net proceeds of the paper amount to $2,850.
—Mr. A. P. Rowley of South Cortland has just
been notified that he has been awarded a premium upon corn grown upon his farm and
exhibited at the World's Fair.
—The East Side mothers' meeting will be held
Thursday, May 2 , in the reading rooms at 3 o'clock. Subject, "Plans and
Methods." All ladies and especially mothers are invited.
—The first May party of the season will be
given to-morrow night by the Fine Wire Drawers'
association in Taylor hall. Judging from the past the party will undoubtedly be
a very enjoyable affair.
—Ross, the harpist of Syracuse and his orchestra
will again this season furnish music at Tully Park hotel under the direction of
Prof. Dresher. The music will no doubt be a feature of the attractions at the
park.
—Mr. Charles A, Merrick, formerly of Cortland,
died Sunday in Brooklyn at the home of his niece, Mrs. J. B . Roesch, at the
age of 76 years. The burial will be in Cortland and there will be a brief service
at the vault to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.
—The STANDARD is indebted to Mr. Lloyd S.
Ingalls for an invitation to the commencement exercises of the dental department
of the University of Buffalo which will occur in Music hall in that city to-night
at 8 o'clock, when Mr. Ingalls will be graduated.
—Cortland ladies who are delayed in securing
their spring millinery may find the cause of the delay to be the same as that
mentioned in Fliegende Blatter: "I want a hat, but it must be in the
latest style, " "Kindly take a chair, madam, and wait a few minutes;
the fashion is just changing."
—There is not much change in the condition
of Dr. F. D. Reese. Dr. F. W. Higgins
believes that he has not yet passed the danger point, but that he is more
comfortable. Another nurse was ordered by telephone last night from the House
of the Good Shepherd at Syracuse.
—Reserved seats for the concert of the
Choral society for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A. will go on sale at the store
of D. F. Wallace & Co. to-morrow morning at the time of opening the store.
Those who have already bought general admission tickets can then exchange them
for reserved seat checks.
—The little girl who started the stories
about Cora Stafford which led the latter to attempt suicide acknowledged this
morning to Mrs. Stafford and to her teacher and others that the stories she had
told were false and wholly without foundation. She asked Mrs. Stafford's
forgiveness and promised to do so no more.
—Some of our city barbers have added to
their business of demolishing hair, the removal of warts. They claim the
operation to be entirely painless and certain. The appliances are a small
battery, an electric needle, and cocoaine. The cocoaine renders the owner of
the wart insensible to any pain from the puncture of the needle or the effects
of the battery.—Binghamton Republican.
—Thomas M. Marks, the baker, has a cat which
for the third time has given birth to a monstrosity in kittens. As in previous
cases, this has taken the form of five perfectly formed kittens, but with the
bodies all joined together. They are all alive and very active. On previous
occasions the kittens have lived for a week or more. Mr. Marks expects soon to
have these on exhibition in one of the windows of his bakery.
"From
Sire to Son."
The distinguished actor and dramatist, Milton
Nobles, and a powerful supporting company will be the attraction at the
Cortland Opera House, Friday evening, May 3, presenting Mr. Nobles' famous play,
"From Sire to Son,", in which he has made so decided a hit. Milton
Nobles as Alfred Armitage, under the assumed name of John Oakley makes a
truthful Westerner of the sixties. He plays the part of a Californian whose life
is a part of the history of the days of the gold fields. Dollie Nobles whose sweet
face and sympathetic voice make her a host of friends everywhere, appears in
the dual role of the wife of Armitage and later as his daughter Mabel. She is
particularly pleasing in her mandolin solo of "Home Sweet Home" which
she renders at the end of the first act, and in the same song in the character of
the daughter in the third act. The plot of the play, "From Sire to
Son" is very interesting.
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