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| Oliver Curtis Perry. |
The Cortland Democrat, Friday, September
27, 1895.
PERRY IS
WILD!
MAY BE
TRANSFERRED.
Was
Found Necessary to Confine Him in an Isolated Cell at Auburn Prison.
AUBURN, Sept. 23.—Oliver Curtis Perry is
still confined in one of the isolated cells of the new building. He is now
willing to submit to the treatment for his punctured eyes without the use of
chloroform and it is thought the sight has not been permanently destroyed.
Perry's isolation is considered a good move
all around. While in the north wing he caused no end of annoyance by hoots and
howls in an attempt to start a general chorus of yells among the convicts.
Where he is at present his cries are unheeded and unheard. He shouts for the
warden, for the chaplain, for better food, for better accommodations, and above
all he wants to go home. Before the train robber tried to blind himself he told
of his antipathy for the officials at Matteawan.
"I wish I had murdered one of them,"
he said fiercely, and then added with a wicked leer and cunning reasoning,
"they could not have killed me for I was mad."
There is a general belief that application will
be made to the superintendent of State prisons for the re-transfer of Perry to
Matteawan Asylum.
AN OLD
OFFENDER.
Dever
Richards Charged with Theft. Captured at Cuyler Monday.
Nearly two weeks ago a warrant was sworn out
before Justice Fletcher of Lestershire, charging Dever Richards with larceny.
Richards was employed on the electric railroad, boarding at Donivan's hotel. He
suddenly disappeared with a watch and some currency belonging to his landlord.
The warrant was placed in the hands of
Sheriff Stevens. Telegrams and letters of inquiry were sent to different parts
of the State, a response to one being received saying that Richards had
formerly frequented Cuyler, N. Y. Instructions were sent to the police at that
place to arrest the fellow if he appeared there.
Yesterday a telegram was received saying that
the man had been apprehended. Under Sheriff Wales left yesterday afternoon for
Cuyler, returning late at night with his prisoner. Richards has served a term
in the penitentiary for a crime committed at Cortland. He will be arraigned
this morning.—Binghamton Republican, Sept. 23.
This is the same fellow that gave Sheriff
Miller and posse such a chase two or three winters ago and was finally captured
this side of McGrawville.
DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION.
A Strong
Ticket Nominated—Harmony Prevails—The Proceedings in Full.
The Democratic County Convention met in
Taylor hall last Saturday afternoon pursuant to call to nominate a county
ticket and to choose delegates to the state, senatorial and judicial
conventions. The convention was called to order by R. W. Bourne, chairman of
the county committee on whose motion Ed. L. Adams of Marathon was made
chairman. Mr. Adams thanked the convention for the honor conferred upon him in
a few well chosen words.
On motion of F. M. Benjamin, Adelbert Holmes
of Cuyler and Patrick Walsh of Freetown were elected secretaries.
The roll was called and the following delegates
answered to their names:
Cincinnatus—Benjamin Kinyon, W. W. Wood, D.
D. Ufford, L. P. Hayes, John N. Smith, F. M. Benjamin.
Cortlandville—Edwin M. Hulbert, O. U.
Kellogg, G. W. Bradford, Charles H. Gaylord, E. D. Phillips, O. A. Kinney.
Cuyler—Adelbert Holmes, Joseph Barker, John
Courtney, Jr., Edward Kelly, John Babcock, Albert Barber.
Freetown—Patrick Welch, John Reagan. Thos.
F. Grady, Victor Hall, Chas. E. Van
Brocklin. John Guy.
Harford—Jerome Whitmarsh, Edward Wilcox, O.
F. Sexton, Arthur Jordan, G. A. Wavle, John Wavle.
Homer—D. D. Newton, Thos. McEvoy, C. E.
Wills, W. A. Coon, Jere Donahue, LeGrand Fisher.
Lapeer—W. E. Hunt, E. A. Hotchkiss, G. S.
Wheeler, J. R. Schermerhorn, Thos. Phalen.
Marathon—Ed. L. Adams, Chas. O. Myers, D. D.
Foley, H. E. Wilson, M. J. Glover, A. L. Peck.
Preble—M. M. Outt, A. H. Van Hoesen, H. D.
Hunt, Henry Currie, Alonzo Hutton, Dwight Gay.
Scott—F. M. Hazard, G. S. Vincent, A.
Bedell, D. J. Cottrell, N. E. Black, J. J.
Sweeney.
Taylor—F. E. Jordan, G. P. Rockwell, Earl
Faint, L. D. Finn, Claude Whitney, Merritt Smith.
Truxton—J. L. Goddard, Patrick Comerfort, P.
J. Vincent, W. Gibbons, John Courtney, Sr.
Willett—Jefferson Greene, E. J. Dyer, John
D. Norton, F. P. Hakes, R. K. Bourne, R. W. Bourne.
On motion of John Courtney, Jr., the following
delegates were elected to represent this county in the State Convention: Dr.
Benjamin Kinyon of Cincinnatus; J. Hub Wallace of Cortland and Patrick
O'Donnell of Truxton.
On motion of R. W. Bourne, the following
alternates were chosen: F. M. Benjamin of Cincinnatus, F. M. Hazard of Scott
and Daniel Van Hoesen of Cortland.
On motion of R. W. Bourne, Mr. Henry E.
Wilson of Marathon was elected delegate to the judicial convention.
On motion of Hon. O. U. Kellogg, the following
delegates were chosen to attend the Senatorial convention to be held in Binghamton
tomorrow: W. E. Hunt, Ed. L. Adams, F. E. Jordan, Jno. D. Norton and A. H. Van
Hoesen.
R. W. Bourne presented the name of Geo. C.
Hubbard of Cortland for the office of Member of Assembly in a stirring speech.
The nomination was made by acclamation.
Hon. O. U. Kellogg presented the name of
Riley Champlin for the office of county judge and surrogate in a neat speech
and was followed by John Courtney, Jr., who made some timely remarks in
commendation of the candidate while seconding the nomination. The nomination
was then made by acclamation.
Dr. David K. Allen of Freetown was nominated
for coroner by acclamation.
On motion the county committee was empowered
to fill any vacancies should any occur on the ticket.
The several towns then handed up the names
for a new county committee which is as follows:
Cincinnatus—F. M. Benjamin.
Cortlandville—C. E. Rowley, F. L. McDowell,
Hubert R. Maine, J. R. Schermerhorn.
Cuyler—Adelbert Holmes.
Freetown—H. E. Woods.
Harford—G. A. Wavle.
Homer—G. A. Brockway, W. A. Coon, J. J.
Murray, D. D. Newton.
Lapeer—G. S. Wheeler.
Marathon—Ed. L. Adams, Charles S. Myers.
Preble—A. H. Van Hoesen
Scott—F. M. Hazard.
Solon—Henry Kelly.
Taylor—L. D. Finn.
Truxton—J. L. Goddard, Patrick Comerfort.
Virgil—W. A. Holton.
Willet—Jefferson D. Greene.
The convention then adjourned sine die.
At a meeting of the county committee held
immediately after the adjournment of the convention, the following officers were
chosen:
Chairman—C. E. Rowley.
Secretary—Hubert R. Maine.
Treasurer—J. R. Schermerhorn.
PAGE
FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The
County Ticket.
Riley Champlin, Esq., the democratic
candidate for county judge and surrogate, is one of the best lawyers in the
county, and is so regarded by the profession. He was born on a farm in Solon
about fifty years ago and taught school long before he was of age. In this way
he earned the money to pay for a thorough education and to support himself
while studying law. He was admitted to the bar about twenty-five years ago and
has been associated with Mr. Lewis Bouton since that time in active practice. A
few years ago he served the county as district attorney and he discharged his
duties in such an able manner as to merit the approval of all who had business
to transact with him.
Mr.
Champlin is an honest man and his word is as good as his bond. He is highly
esteemed by all who enjoy his acquaintance as a man of thorough integrity and
honest impulses. The people owe it to themselves to elect Mr. Champlin to this
responsible officer.
Mr. George C. Hubbard is one of Cortland's
most highly respected business men. He was born in this village and
has always resided here. He was for many years book-keeper in the office of the
Cortland Wagon Co., and discharged his duties with fidelity and rare ability.
Five years ago he was elected supervisor of this town [Cortlandville] by a
handsome majority over a very strong and popular opponent. He was one of the
most popular members of the board and was complimented very highly by the older
members for his abilities and his uniform courtesy. Mr. Hubbard is in the prime
of life and would make an intelligent, able member of assembly, and would do
credit to the county that elected him.
David K. Allen, the democratic candidate for
Coroner is an able physician residing in the town of Freetown, where he enjoys
a large practice. He should be elected.
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| Daniel S. Lamont. |
WASHINGTON
LETTER.
(From
Our Regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 23, 1895.— The
sensationalists are at it again, and with about as much foundation for their
stories as usual. On Saturday Secretary Carlisle went to Marion. Mass., where
he spent several weeks early in the summer. He didn't tell the newspapers why
he went. Marion is known to be in the vicinity of Gray Gables. That was enough
for the venders of cheap sensations. The wires were kept hot with stories of
Secretary Carlisle having been sent for by President Cleveland and all the
details of why and what he was wanted for were telegraphed off with no better
foundation than a lively imagination. It is altogether probable that Secretary
Carlisle went away to escape the heat, which has been terrific in Washington
since the middle of last week; also, that he will combine business with comfort
and see the president before he returns.
It will be a long time before Secretary Lamont hears the last of his not attending the Chickamauga celebration. He was
down for a speech, but instead of going to Tennessee he went to Maine, to bring
Mrs. Lamont and the children home, he says. His friends jokingly tell him that
he would have attended the celebration if they had not put him down for a
speech. The one thing that he can't or won't do is to make a speech.
Senator Vest was naturally much irritated at
having his position on the silver question misrepresented by the wide
publication of what purported to be an interview with him. In order that there
may be no possible misunderstanding of the position he occupies he states it
over his own signature, as follows: "I have not changed my opinion in the
slightest degree as to silver, and must protest against being called upon to
explain imaginary statements never made, and for which I am not responsible. I
stand upon the platform of the Missouri democrats made in August last, and have
never wavered in my position. When the question of repealing the purchasing
clause of the Sherman act was before the Senate I reported from the finance
committee on behalf of my colleagues on the committee who favored free coinage,
and myself, a bill for the coinage of silver dollars at the ratio of 20 to 1,
and I afterwards voted with the friends of silver in both houses, first, for the
ratio of 16 to 1, then 17 to 1, then 18 to 1, then 19 to 1, then 20 to 1 and
finally for the reenactment of the Bland—Allison act. If called upon to vote
again upon the question I should endeavor to secure free coinage for silver as standard
redemption money at the old ratio, and if that could not be had, then at some
other ratio which would secure the requisite majority."
Nobody seems to know just what is going to
be done about the sugar bounty. Secretary
Carlisle notified Ex-Senator Manderson, the counsel for the beet sugar men,
that he would hear his arguments against certifying the case to the Court of
Claims, any time after the twentieth of this month. Since that time nothing has
been heard from Mr. Manderson. Regardless of any argument that may be presented
it is not thought likely that Secretary Carlisle will send the case to the
Court of Claims against the wishes of the claimant. It has been stated that he
might overrule or reverse the decision of Comptroller Bowler, but that is
something that Secretary Carlisle himself has positively stated that he had no
authority to do.
A democrat who has never been especially
friendly towards Senator Hill has just returned from New York, where he was in
touch with everything going on inside democratic circles. Said he:
"Senator Hill has been doing a wonderful work in his efforts to get the
democratic party in such shape that it will have a fighting chance to regain
possession of the State of New York. It matters not whether this work be done,
for one reason or another Senator Hill deserves credit, and I am quite sure
that he will get it, too, not only from the democrats of the state but from
those of the entire country." Democrats here are much interested in the
New York state democratic convention to be held this week. They want to know
whether it will declare in favor of any presidential candidate.
HERE AND
THERE.
Mrs. Louise M. Smith of Cortland has been
granted a pension.
Burgess, the clothier, has a new
advertisement on our last page.
Emerald Hose fair will open in the armory
Oct. 4 and continue throughout the week.
John Garrity has had the old Cortland House
bus repainted and it looks as good as new.
The Prohibition county convention will be
held in Collins hall in this village at 1 o'clock P. M., Oct. 7.
A large audience witnessed the presentation
of "Shore Acres" in the opera house last Tuesday evening. All were
well pleased with the performance.
The hospital box on the Messenger House bar
was opened last Tuesday afternoon and found to contain $61.22. This had
accumulated since Sept. 1.
Chas. T. Ellis, the German comedian, was
favored with a large audience at the opera house last Friday evening. The
entertainment was most excellent.
The fantastic comedy "Niobe"
written by Harry and Edward Paulton will be presented in the opera house this
evening with Miss Minerva Dorr in the title role. She is a most excellent
actress and is supported by a fine company.
The report published in the Standard that
snow was falling in Buffalo at 2:30 o'clock
last Monday afternoon must have been a fake as a representative of this paper
was in that city all day Monday and there was not a sign of snow. The weather was
decidedly warm there.
The Normal lecture course for the ensuing
winter promises to be a fine one. The
following attractions have been secured: the Temple Quartet of Boston, Remenyi.
the violinist, the John Thomas Concert Co., Geo. Elliott, the impersonator, and
J. Dewitt Miller, a popular platform lecturer.
A cow belonging to J. B. Dice of Solon and a
three year old heifer belonging to William Bean of McGrawville, which was
running in the pasture of Myron Bingham of Solon, were found dead a few days
since. They had been shot evidently by hunters who were poor marksmen. They
should be made to pay for their carelessness.
FROM
EVERYWHERE.
Last week the Ithaca electric cars carried
67,000 people.
Castellane has already spent a million of the
Gould fortune.
Tully voted in favor of bonding for a system
of water works Saturday, 39 to 18.
The oat crop in the vicinity of Trumansburg has
yielded from 60 to 100 bushels to the acre.
A Lockport man who is only 92 years old has
sued a maiden of 80 summers for breach of promise.
Fond du Lac, Wis., had a $340,000 fire last
Sunday night. Ten million feet of lumber and a mill burned.
T. Dewitt Talmage has accepted the call of
the Fifth Presbyterian church, Washington,
D. C, and in three weeks will be installed.
A giant puffball weighing over five pounds
was found on the farm of Phillip O'Connor in Sherburne. A six quart pan would
just hold it.
Last year California produced 13,000,000 gallons
of wine; this year it will be 17,000,000. The average price for dry wine grapes
is $15 a ton.
It is announced that the Singer Machine company
will put a first-class bicycle on the market for $35, and other manufacturers talk
of doing the same thing.
Abraham Nichols killed a large rattlesnake near
West Davenport on Saturday while out gunning. His snakeship measured four feet
and seven inches and had 14 rattles.
Dr. George Plumb, one of the chemists of the
university of Chicago, says that the time is soon coming when hot water and food
tablets will be the sole accoutrement of a kitchen.
Before the war, it is said, that Amityville,
L. I., was a "hot bed of abolitionism." Now the people are quarreling
over the matter of admitting colored children to the public schools.
Agents are traveling through the state trying
to introduce canned horse meat. The great droves of horses in Oregon and Washington
furnish the meat and the canneries are located In Chicago.
New York city has a so-called potato glut.
The tuber from New Jersey sells for $1.00, and that from Long Island sells for $1.25
a barrel. Dealers say that the crop throughout the country is the largest ever produced.
A boilermaker of Oswego claims to have found
gold ore that assays $20 per ton on his lot in that city. Whether the specimens
were dropped there or whether the vein from which it came can be located is a
question.
Dr. Richard Dey of Romulus lies in a critical
condition as the result of an attack by Ernest Benjamin, a lunatic. Dr. Dey was
making an examination to determine the man's mental condition, when Benjamin
suddenly became violent, seized a stone and struck the physician a terrific blow
on the head, felling him and producing concussion of the brain. Benjamin has
been taken to the Willard State Hospital at Ovid.
SCOTT.
The weather is hot, hotter, hottest.
Potatoes are yielding from 150 to 400 bushels
per acre.
Mrs. P. O. Brown is better and Mrs. Emily
Babcock is about the same.
Charley Fox, who works for C. M. Kinyon, has
shot 101 woodchucks since Decoration Day.
It is expected that Ernest Barber and Alvah
Clarke will return from Alleghany county next week.
Mr. Eden Burdick and wife of Little Genesee
and a Mr. Crandall of Leonardsville have been guests at Mills G. Frisbie's.
I wonder if Warner Miller is trying another
of his little games to keep down the prohibition vote by introducing a motion
favoring the enforcement of the Sunday law. Maybe the temperance people will be
fooled by him again by posing as a temperance reformer. Some have not forgotten
his hypocritical action before.
We notice that the Homer reporter for the Standard,
in mentioning the death of Mrs. Jesse Brown of that town, says that she
leaves three children, two sons and one daughter. The correspondent must have
been misinformed or not rattled, for she leaves ten children, seven sons and three
daughters, viz: Sanford, Francis, Samuel, David, John, Charles, and Merritt,
and Elizabeth, Phoebe and Lucy. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were for many years respected
citizens of this town and their children were all brought up here.
A large concourse of people assembled at
Scott last Sunday afternoon to witness a game of ball between Scott and
Spafford boys, a picked nine upon each side. The Scott boys who played were
Willet Frink, Richard Mclntyre, Charles Winchester, Archie Gould, Arvin Redell,
Timothy Mahnney, Jerry Cornell, Percy Babcock and Ray Jenks. There were quite a
number of innings and the score stood: Scott 21, Spafford 8. The game was a hot
one on account of the boiling sun overhead if for no other reason. Scott had 8
innings and Spafford 9. If no whiskey could have been obtained some would have
made a better appearance and we hear that some from Homer made the beer and
stones fly in the street near the hotel much to the discomfort of nearby
citizens. Again the inquiry went forth: "Where were the peace
officers?" More breastworks were needed.
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