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| Sultan Abdul Hamid II. |
THE SULTAN
OBJECTS.
No
Dissatisfaction In the Army or Navy.
DENIES
SENSATIONAL REPORTS.
Turkish
Soldiers and Sailors Will Give the Sultan Loyal Support—The New
Turkish
Cabinet—Other Foreign News of General Interest.
WASHINGTON, NOV. 8.—The Turkish legation announces
the following telegram from the sublime porte, under Wednesday's date:
"All news concerning plots, threatening
letters and a supposed dissatisfaction in the ranks of the army and navy is intentionally
propagated by well-known newspaper correspondents affiliated with the Armenian committee
to alarm public opinion. As for the often-repeated assertion of the intended
extermination of the Armenians, it is too absurd to be contradicted. The
efforts of the imperial government tend, on the contrary, to quell the revolt
of the Armenians and to resist their criminal and bloody agitation.
"The Armenian agitation at Diarbekir was
on the point of subsiding when the Armenians began again their attacks upon the
Mussulmans by throwing bombs at them and by firing at the Muezzins at the very
time when the latter were calling the faithful to prayers. During the affray 60
Mussulmans and 90 Armenians were killed and wounded.
"Armenian rioters attacked the patrols
at Sivrik. killing a few Mussulmans and setting fire to the bazzar.
"Two hundred Armenian revolutionists,
having at their head Kevrok, chief of the parish of Ferus (Marash), attacked
the village of Tchoukour Hissar and killed 12 Mussulmans.
"Some of the agitators were arrested,
including part of the Armenian brigands who captured Hadji Hassan Oglou Husni.
"All news published as to the
occurrence of trouble at Adana, Tarsus and Mersine is absolutely without
foundation."
THE
TURKISH CABINET.
General
Satisfaction Expressed at the Appointments.
CONSTANTINOPLE, NOV. 8.—A new Turkish ministry
has been formed. It is composed as follows:
Hali Rifat Pasha, grand vizier.
Said Pasha, president of the council of state.
Tewfik Pasha, minister for foreign affairs.
Hassan Pasha, minister of marine.
Riza Pasha, minister of war.
Memduh Pasha, minister of interior.
Abdur Rahman Pasha, minister of justice.
Sabri Pasha, minister of finance.
Arifi Pasha, minister without portfolio.
Will Not
Be Killed Quietly.
LONDON, NOV. 8.—A Constantinople
correspondent, whose sympathies lean toward the Armenian side, admits that the
Moslem attacks have aroused such a spirit of opposition and despair among the
Armenians that, instead of allowing themselves to be killed quietly, as at
Trebizond and Akhassir, the Armenians themselves commenced the attack at
Zeitoun, Erzeroum and elsewhere, besides making ill-advised and mischievous
demonstrations in Constantinople.
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| USS Brooklyn. |
The New
Ships of the Navy.
The opening of congress this December will
see the United States provided with a more powerful navy than it ever possessed
before. The year 1895 has been especially marked by the launching of new
vessels and the completion and trial trips of others.
The steamers St. Paul and the St. Louis can
practically be counted as belonging to the navy, and they began their trips for
the American line the present season. The largest armored cruiser yet made in
this country is the Brooklyn, 9,271 tons, launched some time since. There are
already vessels enough to give seven steel cruisers and gunboats apiece
respectively to the Asiatic, the Pacific and the gulf squadrons, and these
squadrons are equipped accordingly. That leaves the European and South Atlantic
fleets insufficiently provided for—at least they would be if there were a spark
of indication of war in those regions.
Four as handsome and effective cruisers as
any nation possesses have been added to the navy this year. The largest is the
Minneapolis, 7,375 tons. The others are the Olympia, 5,870 tons, and the Cincinnati
and Raleigh, each 3,213 tons. Besides these, ten new armorclads are on the list
of additions to our navy for 1895, though the completion of some of them will run
over into the beginning of 1896.
Of the ten the Indiana, the Massachusetts and
the Oregon are designed to serve chiefly as coast line battleships. They are of
10,288 tons each, and are among the best specimens of naval architecture extant.
Two others, the Maine and the Texas, rank as second class battleships, being
respectively of 6,682 tons and 6,315 tons.
Then we have for this year the ram Katahdin,
the harbor defender Puritan, of 6,060 tons and carrying 12 inch guns, and three
double turret monitors of 3,990 tons each, the Terror, Amphitrite and
Monadnock.
The two steel gunboats lately launched, the
Nashville and Wilmington, will be ready early in 1896. The third one of the
steel gunboats ordered to be built this year, the Helena, will be launched in a
few weeks. These three gunboats and the Brooklyn will be put into active service
in 1896. So will the Iowa, 11,410 tons, the largest battleship as yet ordered
for the new American navy.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Cortlandville
and the Majority.
The Republican plurality in this county on
secretary of state this fall is 2,127. The Republican plurality in the town of Cortlandville
is 1,030. This lacks only 43 of being one-half of the plurality for the entire
county. The Republican vote of Cortlandville is nearly one-third of the
combined Republican and Democratic vote of the county. And yet the town of
Cortlandville has only six delegates in Republican county conventions made of
ninety delegates. The entire United States can be searched in vain for such
another instance of political inequality and injustice.
The entire vote of Cortland county on the
5th inst. was 5,742. The Republican vote was 3,740, the Democratic vote 1,618,
the Prohibition vote, 317; the People's, 59; and the Socialists, 13.
Colored voters in the north have political influence
enough for the friends of the various Republican candidates to have watched
with profound interest to find whom they indorsed for the presidential nominee
at their national convention in Washington. Their practical unanimity in favor
of one distinguished gentleman [McKinley] shows that the negro mind is inclined
to favor a high tariff.
Four of the battlegrounds of the civil war
have now been constituted national military parks. They are Gettysburg, Shiloh,
Antietam and Chickamauga.
England induces the porte to promise to deal
justly with Armenia; the United States
induces England to promise to deal justly with Venezuela. Good.
MILK IS
REFUSED
At the
Milk Station Saturday—Farmers Threaten Organization.
Some of the farmers who daily deliver milk
at the milk depot in Cortland for shipment to New York this morning complained
to the STANDARD that they had been notified that they need bring no milk to the
station to-morrow morning as it would not be received. No explanation for this
singular proceeding was offered, and they stated that this was the third time
this fall at intervals that this had occurred.
A STANDARD reporter at once called at the
milk station to inquire of Manager J. B. Haug in regard to the matter. The man
in charge of the station today said that Mr. Haug went to New York last Wednesday
and had not yet returned. He received a telegram last night from Mr. Haug
directing him to receive no milk on Saturday morning, as no cans would be sent
up from New York to take it that day, but to take it as usual on Sunday
morning. The man acknowledged that this was the third time this fall that this had
happened. The only explanation of this decision which he could give was that
they didn't want the milk in New York.
The farmers who called our attention to the
matter in the first place informed us that all the milk producers who supply
the local station are very much exercised over this refusal to take the milk every
little while at the option of the manager. Some of them held an indignation
meeting after the second refusal, and to-day they are again discussing the situation.
The milk is a dead loss to them on days when it is refused. Most of them once
made butter, but they have disposed of their apparatus for its manufacture and
there is nothing that they can do with their milk. The proposition to start a
new milk association here with a new manager met with hearty approval, and it
is not at all improbable that this will be the result. The matter is being
looked up of disposing of the milk in New York. If favorable terms can be
secured it is said that the farmers will go in a body and with no delay from
the old to the new.
Another idea was popular this morning with
the farmers in the west part of town. The Sears cheese factory has of late
years been run from April to November and the rest of the time the milk has
been taken to the depot. The factory shut down this year Nov. 1, as usual. The
patrons are very anxious to start it up again. They say they can better afford
to get a little less price for their
milk and get it every day than every few weeks to drop a day
altogether. They will have a short distance to carry it too instead of a long
one.
It is too early yet to make any forecast of
the result, but it can surely be said that the farmers are very much in earnest
in their desire not to lose a day's profits every little while, and that
something will be very sure to come out of this.
The New
"Eight Bells."
The famous Brothers Byrne, the quartet of
fun makers, will appear at the Opera House to-morrow night in the nautical pantomimic
comedy, the new "Eight Bells." Almost from the time the curtain rises
on the first act until it falls after the last one the audience is looking and
laughing at Byrne Brothers. Only one of them, John F. Byrne, has anything in particular
to say. The other three brothers carry their part in pantomime.
The scenery of "Eight Bells" is constructed
especially for these agile brothers, and they go sailing through the windows,
jumping headlong through the aides of the houses and tumbling through a trick
coach in the most reckless and startling manner. There is a large cast of
characters in the production of the new "Eight Bells," and many medleys,
songs, dances and imitations. Some pretty and vivacious young women figure in
the entertainment, and the plot running through it is funny in its situations.
BREVITIES.
—The Crescent club party will occur in Empire
hall this evening. McDermott's orchestra furnishes the music.
—The next party of the St. Vitus dancing club
will be held in Vesta Lodge rooms on
Friday evening, Nov. 15.
—New advertisements to-day are—Baker &
Angell, page 6; McKinney & Doubleday, page 7; Cortland Beef Co., page
6.
—At its meeting last night Orris Hose Co.
voted to become one of the fifty to give five dollars to the Hospital
association on the first day of each December for five years.
—To all advance paying subscribers of the
daily or semi-weekly STANDARD or the weekly Sentinel we can furnish either the
weekly Tribune or the weekly Press for twenty five cents.
—DeRuyter is having a survey made with the
idea of putting in a system of waterworks. It is the plan to bring the water
from some large springs two miles away and 330 feet above the level of the village.
—A syndicate of Philadelphia capitalists has
obtained possession of Pleasant Beach,
Onondaga lake, and will expend $125,000 on it before next season, making it one
of the finest summer resorts in Central New York.
—The woods of classic Virgil are doubtless
ringing with musketry to-day and the squirrel is probably driven from his lair
as Messrs. James A. Wood, Fred W. Melvin, A. W. Graham and K. L. Chatterton are
in that region with guns and dogs.
—All graduates and members of the Loyal
Temperance Legion of Cortland and all young people over thirteen years of age
interested in L. T. L. work are cordially invited to meet at the home of Mrs.
James S. Squires, 44 Tompkins-st. on Saturday evening, Nov, 9, at 7:30 o'clock.
—The case of the Village of Cortland against
Anna Bates charged with violation of the excise laws was called in police court
this morning and again adjourned to Nov. 20 at 10 o'clock A. M. I. H. Palmer
appeared for the plaintiff and W. J. Mantanye for defendant.
—About fifty were at the residence of Miss
Force on Tompkins-st. last night at the rehearsal of the opera,
"Mikado." Mr. Henry Dixie of New York was in attendance and the whole
opera was rehearsed. Some of the special scenery arrived yesterday. The Clover
club rooms have been rented for rehearsals and the next one will he held next Tuesday
night.
ROWE
FOUND GUILTY.
Sentenced
to Fifty Dollars or Fifty Days—Case is Appealed.
The Rowe excise case which occupied the
attention of the police court Wednesday and Thursday went to the jury at 4:40
P. M, yesterday. The jury returned once for instructions and at 6 o'clock
through the foreman, Issac Edgcomb, rendered the following verdict: "We find
the defendant guilty as charged." The court then sentenced the defendant
to pay a fine of fifty dollars or be committed to the jail until the fine is
paid, or for a time not to exceed fifty days.
The defendant promptly filed a notice of
appeal.
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