Cortland Standard, Monday, September 9,
1895.
MORE EVIDENCE OF MURDER.
Suicide
Theory Clearly Disproved in Mary Reisdorph's Case.
LYONS, N. Y., Sept. 9.—Another sensational
discovery has been made in the vicinity of the lonely spot where pretty Mary
Reisdorph of Junius was found dead last Monday afternoon, which seems to
completely disapprove the theory that she committed suicide.
Attorney Kreutzer, who has been retained by
Coroner Chase of Palmyra to collect evidence tending to show how the girl came
to her death, in searching a cornfield in the vicinity of the tragedy for the
girl's hat, veil and cloak, which are missing, came upon the torn fragments of
several envelopes addressed to the girl and footprints leading into the
cornfield, evidently made by a man.
The writing was in a masculine hand and the
envelopes bore the stamp of Sodus, Palmyra, Syracuse and this village. The
finding of these fragments of envelopes, coupled with the fact that none of her
correspondence could be found either at her home in Junius or at her boarding
house in this village, would seem to indicate that the person responsible for
her death has made away with the letters together with her missing wearing
apparel. The fact that there was very little water found in the lungs of the
girl and that none whatever was found in her stomach, goes to show she was not
drowned.
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| Brooklyn bridge and promenade. |
A Five
Dollar Jump.
NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Mrs. Clara McArthur, the
first woman to jump from the Brooklyn bridge, was fined $5 by Magistrate Crane
in police court this morning. She paid the fine and left the court with her
husband. The woman seems to have fully recovered.
Match
Factories to Resume.
OSWEGO, N. Y., Sept. 9.—The Diamond Match
company's factories, which have been shut down for several weeks, will resume
operations tomorrow with 500 operatives.
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| Rev. James Catlin, Sr. |
HE
QUOTES BIBLE
To Prove
that the New Woman Should Not Wear Bloomers.
NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Rev. James Catlin who
sometime ago electrified the prayer-meeting
of Grace M. E. church, Jersey City Heights, with a sermon on a quotation from
the prophet Ezekiel pronouncing "Woe to the women that sew pillows to all
armholes" does not cease in his crusade against the fashions adopted by
the new woman.
Mr. Catlin severely condemns bicycle
bloomers. He says this attire is an abomination in the sight of every right
thinking man or woman. "Besides," said Mr. Catlin yesterday, "it is in
direct opposition to the commands of the Lord Almighty as set down in the Holy
Scriptures. Turn to Deuteronomy, xxii:5 and you will find these words: 'The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall
a man put on a woman's garment, for all that do so are abomination unto the
Lord thy God.'"
This is sufficient to condemn all the young
women that ride up and down the street with trousers on.
THE
SEWER DITCH.
Two
Bicyclists Narrowly Escape Falling Into It.
Yesterday afternoon between 3 and 4 o'clock
two young men from Moravia mounted on bicycles were riding up North Main-st.
between the electric car tracks at a rapid rate of speed. They passed the rows
of tile placed at the foot of Madison-st. by the sewer managers as a guard and
signal of an open ditch ahead that runs from Grant-st. across Main at a depth
of about 18 feet. They did not seem to recognize that the ditch was there and
did not slacken in the least their high rate of speed. Before they could be stopped
by a few spectators standing near by [sic] they came to the ditch.
One of the riders jumped from the saddle and
still clinging to the bicycle was carried by the rapid momentum over the ditch.
The other rider was not so fortunate, but coming in contact with the curbing he
was thrown violently to the ground. With a great effort he saved himself from
falling into the ditch by clinging to the rails and curbing. Although both of
the young men complained of being considerably bruised and injured they were
enabled to again resume their journey.
THE
COUNTY FAIR
Begins
To-morrow and Lasts Four Days at the Fair Grounds.
The annual fall fair of the Cortland County
Agricultural society begins tomorrow and continues four days. It promises to be
one of the best fairs in the history of the society. The building has been
repaired and renovated and will be ready for the exhibits of all classes which
are to be shown inside. Dey Brothers of Syracuse have engaged thirty feet of
space and will prepare a booth that will give a good idea of their stock.
Cortland merchants are taking hold and promise to make creditable exhibits.
Florists and gardeners will have a display.
The public school children should bear in
mind that prizes are offered for several classes of their work. The exhibit of
fancy and industrial work used to be extensive and should be so this year.
Over 200 coops of fowls are already on the
grounds and others are coming.
All the horse races have been filled and all
will go except the free-for-all race which has been declared off, and a
three-year old colt race has been substituted for it. In some classes the
entries are the largest ever known.
The bicycle trickriders, Fred Beaudry and
Harry Hitchcock, the wonders of the world, will give an exhibition of their
tricks on some day, probably on Friday.
The baby show will positively occur and
entries have already been made.
Farmers should remember the special prizes
for largest and best display of vegetables grown on the exhibitor's land.
The horses have already begun to arrive and
are being stabled on the grounds.
On Friday Mr. Louis F. Post will make an
address upon the subject of "Just
Taxation, the Foundation of Good Government."
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
The Real
Eastern Question.
In Harper's
Magazine Dr. William H. Thompson throws a whole flood of light on what
ought to be to all Christian nations the eastern question, whether it is so or
not. In the Turkish empire "millions of our fellow men are ever under the
shadow of death simply because they bear the Christian name." When he was
a young man, Dr. Thompson lived in Syria, and the Christians there passed their
existence in constant dread of the butchery that might begin on them at any
moment, and which actually did take place four years after Dr. Thompson left
Syria. At the massacre in 1860 more than 20 of his friends were slain in cold
blood.
No Christian's word is taken in court against
a Moslem. To a sincere Moslem his religion teaches that all unbelievers should
be put to the sword. It is really a matter of theology with him, and be thinks
he is serving God by exterminating Jews and Christians. When, therefore, for
any reason a Christian in a Moslem country fails to pay the head money exacted
of all belonging to his faith, the Turk who takes his head off is obeying the
prophet. There have never been such fiendish cruelties anywhere else as have
been perpetrated in the name of religion, and that accounts largely for the
massacres of Christians in Turkish countries. "The sacred duty of every
Moslem is to make the unbeliever uncomfortable daily," says Dr. Thompson.
There is another reason for persecuting Christians.
The Christians are of a different race. They are progressive, energetic and
ambitions. They grow rich and prosperous, while the slothful, shiftless Turk,
hampered by his multiplicity of wives and children, grows poorer and poorer.
This makes him hate the "Nazarene dogs" yet more bitterly.
◘ It
is not unusual for the widows and families of deceased citizens to issue a card
in the newspapers thanking friends for the sympathy manifested at the time of
the death and funeral of the dear departed. But what does this card from Mrs.
John G. Holder, in the Jackson Sun,
mean? "I desire to return thanks to all those who so kindly assisted in
the death of my husband."
◘ It is a high compliment to the government
of the Hawaiian republic that even England has acknowledged the justice, with
one partial exception, of its sentences against British subjects who were
engaged in the late farcical attempt to put poor old Queen Lil back upon the
throne and prop her up there.
◘ Breckinridge declares that he never said
he was permanently out of politics. He does
not need to do so. His constituents have said so for him.
◘ The leader who trusts to the good sense,
intelligence and honesty of the people never appealed his cause in vain.
Trickery, corruption, chicanery and faking seem to win for awhile, but the people
find out those who use them sooner or later, and will have none of them.
Lincoln won his greatest triumphs simply by going before the people fair and
square, not trying to hoodwink or bamboozle them. The people can always be
trusted.
For Free
Cuba.
In The Forum
Clarence King publishes a ringing, passionate plea for the recognition of the
republic of Cuba by the United States. He recounts at length the record of
Spanish greed and oppression in Cuba. Four centuries ago, when Spain took Cuba
from the gentle, manly Siboney Indians, and then tried to convert them to
Christianity, their chief, Hatuei, said, "If there are Spaniards in
heaven, I prefer to go to hell." The Spaniards in those days captured and
carried off to Europe as slaves from half a million to a million of the gentle
aborigines who inhabited the Antilles, and who received the foreign white men
so hospitably. After the Indian peoples were exterminated then Spain started
the African slave trade with all its horrors.
Mr. King believes the habit of despoliation and
cruelty has in the course of centuries become so ingrained in the Spanish blood
that Spain naturally turned the old slave driving, robber methods even against
her own loyal subjects in Cuba. The governor general wields absolute power.
When in 1886 the Spanish crown was forced to accept a written constitution,
Cuba and the Spanish West Indies were exempted. Today no Cuban delegate can sit
in the Spanish cortes, even without a vote.
When the South American countries rebelled against
Spain in 1830 and achieved their independence, Cuba refused to follow. She was
loyal to Spain, and got the name of the "ever faithful." But the ever
faithful has been used only to have revenue squeezed out of her. The tariff
imposed on Cuba has been planned with diabolic ingenuity to enrich the Spanish
merchant at the expense of Cuban trade. "All profit and all advantage go
to Spain. Cuba only suffers and grows poor."
At present Cuba has a population of
1,600,000. At the beginning of the American Revolution the population of the 13
colonies was only about 2,500,000, and they were as poor as the Cuban
insurgents are now. As to the plain course before the United States Mr. King
says:
The Cuban war hangs before us an
issue which we cannot evade. Either we must stand as the friend of Spain and,
by our thorough prevention of the shipment of war supplies to the insurgents,
aid and countenance the Spanish efforts to conquer Cuba into continued sorrow,
or we must befriend Cuba in her heroic battle to throw off a medieval yoke.
Let us not deceive ourselves. Spain alone cannot conquer Cuba. She proved that
in ten years of miserable failure. If we prevent the sending of munitions to
Cuba and continue to allow Spain to buy ships and arms and ammunition here, it
is we who will conquer Cuba, not Spain. It is we who will crush liberty!
To secure victory for Cuba it is necessary
for us, in my opinion, to take but a single step—that is, to recognize her
belligerency. She will do all the rest.
When the Cuban government is set up, as it
soon will be, we shall have equally as good international authority and
precedent to recognize a state of war in the island as Spain did for our own
Confederate insurgents 40 days after the shot on Fort Sumter. We can return to
her, in the interests of liberty, the compliment she then paid us in behalf of
slavery. The justice will be poetic. With all possible decorum, with a politeness
above criticism, with a firmness, wholly irresistible, we should assist Spain
out of Cuba and out of the hemisphere as effectually as Lincoln and Seward did the
French invaders of Mexico in the sixties.
Is it difficult for us to decide between
free Cuba and tyrant Spain? Why not fling overboard Spain and give Cuba the aid
which she needs and which our treaty with Spain cannot prevent? Which cause is
morally right? Which is manly? Which is American?
Turkey's
Proposed Concession.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 9.—The dragomans of
the British, French and Russian embassies have received the decision of the
porte with reference to Armenia. The porte's proposed concessions entitled the
dragomans of the three embassies to deal direct with the president of the
Turkish committee of control, which is to superintend the application of the
reform.
No Christian vali nor mutessarif will be
appointed, but other administrative officials will be chosen in proportion to
the population. Christians will also be admitted to the gendarmerie. Mudirs
will be elected by councils of elders and a rural constabulary will be established.
It is not believed that the concessions will
satisfy the powers. It is pointed out that owing to the persecution the
Christian population is so diminished in many districts that it is now in a
minority. The officials therefore would always be Mohammedans.
BREVITIES.
—Two drunks went to jail for three days this
morning, [each] not having the three dollars.
—The Cortland Athletic association hold a
regular meeting at the club house to-night.
—The regular monthly meeting of the Y. M. C.
A. bicycle club occurs to-morrow night at 8 o'clock.
—The Cortland juniors and the Homer juniors
crossed bats at Homer Saturday afternoon with a result of 22 to 14 in favor of
Cortland.
—To-morrow is trolley day in Syracuse and
part of the cars are to be run and managed by ladies in behalf of the Woman's
Christian association.
—The Sunday-school of the McGrawville
Presbyterian church is picnicking at the park today. This afternoon they
enjoyed a ride to Homer and return,
—The Oswego Times in its account of the fair in that county gives a fine notice
of the display of musical instruments of F. M. Shultz of Richland, formerly of
Cortland.
—The meeting for the election of directors
of the Cortland Omnibus & Cab Co.
was postponed from last Saturday to Saturday Sept. 14, at 2 o'clock P. M.
—We have in our possession two copies of the
annual report of the factory inspector for 1894 which we shall be glad to
donate to any one who may be interested in it.
—Saturday and Sunday were two of the busiest
days on the electric lines this season. On the former day 5,562 fares were
registered and on the latter the number was 5,402.
—The sewer has been completed on Homer-ave.
and the cars are running on that line again to-day. All traffic has been
suspended on North Main-st. until that sewer is completed.
—A United States express wagon with its
horse and driver attempted to cross a Genesee-st. canal budge in Utica Saturday
as a boat came along. It is a hoist bridge and the bridge was elevated with the
team on it at 10:30 A. M. The machinery got out of order as the bridge went up
and it was 5 o'clock before it was fixed and the bridge could be lowered again.
The driver unhitched his horse and fed him. He was unmercifully guyed by the
crowd, but took it good naturedly high up in the air.
Salvini.
Alexander Salvini, on his appearance here on
Tuesday evening for the first time will
take his bow as the cunning adventurous D'Artagnan, the familiar hero of Dumas'
novel, "The Three Guardsmen." A happier selection could not have been
made, for, besides being the most elaborate of his productions, it strikes the
keynote of the school of drama, which he so uniquely represents. It is a play,
of course, in which rapidity of incident limits artistic opportunity, and there
is not much room for dramatic fervor or serious acting, but there is an
atmosphere, a bravado, a fascinating chivalry in the fictions of Dumas, which
nowadays Salvini alone seems capable of assuming with any degree of naturalness
or conviction. Youth, courage and loyalty are their elements and action their
password. D'Artagnan is scarcely a very possible character, according to modern
standards, but he is magnetic to a high degree.
