THE
SUPERVISORS.
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE BOARD.
The
Annual Meeting—Last Year's Organization Continued.
The board of supervisors of this county met
in annual session in the rooms over the Surrogate's office at 1:30 last Monday
afternoon. The board is made up as follows:
Cincinnatus—Benjamin Kinyon.
Cortlandville—R. Bruce Smith.
Cuyler—Wells G. Cardner.
Freetown—Oscar N. Gardner.
Harford—Josiah Brown.
Homer—William H. Crane.
Lapeer—Frank M. Surdam.
Marathon—Walter A. Brink.
Preble—Albert H. Van Hoesen.
Scott—Mills G. Frisbie.
Solon—Johnson G. Bingham.
Taylor—William H. DeLong.
Truxton—John O'Donnell.
Virgil—William A. Bolton.
Willet—Jefferson Green.
Republicans in Roman, Democrats in Italic.
Because the members of the board were
elected for two years, it was held that the officers of last year's board would
hold over this year and the old organization was continued. The old board
adjourned last year sine die, and it is not easy to see how this meeting can be
a continuation of the last meeting. W. H. Crane of Homer is chairman and John
C. Barry of Cortland is clerk. Every member of the board answered the roll
call. The following standing committees were appointed:
On Footing Assessment Rolls—Messrs. Bingham,
Van Hoesen, Frisbie, Brink, Cardner, Surdam, O'Donnell.
On Erroneous Assessments —Messrs. Brown,
Holton, Van Hoesen.
On Courthouse and Jail—Messrs. Surdam,
Gardner, Greene.
On Settling with County Treasurer—Messrs
Frisbie, Kinyon, Brink.
On Settling with County Clerk and
Sheriff—Messrs. Brink, Holton, Frisbie.
On Settling with School and Loan
Commissioners—Messrs. Cardner, Bingham, Greene.
On Settling with County Judge and
Justices—Messrs. Van Hoesen, O'Donnell, Brown.
On Constables' Bills—Messrs. Gardner,
Kinyon, DeLong.
On Miscellaneous Bills—Messrs. Smith,
Holton, Gardner.
On Public Printing—Messrs. Brown, Holton,
DeLong.
On Settling with Superintendent of the
Poor—Messrs. Greene, DeLong, Bingham.
On Coroners' Bills—Messrs. Kinyon Gardner,
Surdam.
On Settling with District Attorney—Messrs.
O'Donnell, Smith, Cardner.
On Equalization—Messrs. Brink, Smith,
Kinyon, Bingham, Surdam, Van Hoesen, Cardner.
On Jurisprudence—Messrs. O'Donnell, Frisbie,
Bingham.
On Applications—Messrs. Holton, Smith,
Brown.
On Settling with Supervisors and
Clerks—Messrs DeLong, Greene, Frisbie.
After transacting some unimportant business
the board adjourned until 9 o'clock Tuesday morning.
SECOND DAY, TUESDAY, NOV. 12.
The journal was read and approved.
A communication from the comptroller was
read, which informed the board that the aggregate valuation of land in Cortland
county is fixed at $9,666,105, upon which a state tax of $31,318.18 must be
levied, which is at the rate of [3.23] mills on one dollar. This is divided as
follows; For schools $9,086.14; for state care of insane $9,660.10; for general
purposes and for canals taken together $12,565.94. In addition, the sum of
$394.90 must be raised for compensation of the stenographers of the Sixth
Judicial District of the Supreme Court.
The report of the U. S. loan commissioners
was read and placed on file and the reports of the District attorney and the
railroad commissioners of the town of Truxton and Cincinnatus were submitted
and referred to the committee on appropriations.
The following bills were presented:
Syracuse Institute for Feeble-Minded children,
for care of children $100.
Matteawan State hospital for $195 for care
of one patient one year at $3.75 per week.
Onondaga Co. Penitentiary $404.06.
LeCoutenir St. Mary's institution for
instruction of deaf mutes $275 for one pupil one year.
These bills were all referred to the
committee on appropriations.
A communication from the state commission of
prisons, relating to the employment of prisoners on the highways in the counties
from which they were sentenced, instead of sending them to the penitentiaries was
read and referred to the committee on county buildings.
Police Justice Bull submitted his statement
showing that he had the village treasurer's receipt for $1,547, the amount collected and turned over to that
officer.
On motion of Mr. Kinyon:
Resolved, That we adopt the following order of business:
1. Roll call.
2. Reading of journal of previous day.
3. Presenting petitions and communications.
4. Reports of standing committees.
5. Reports of select committees.
6. Motions, resolutions and notices.
7. Special orders of the day.
8. General orders of the day.
9. Unfinished business generally.
And that the morning session be from 9 to 12
and the afternoon session from 1 to 4.
Resolved, That the clerk be authorized to purchase the necessary supplies,
stationery, etc., for the use of the board and the same shall be a county
charge.
Mr. Kinyon presented a matter of disputed
highway tax in the town of Cincinnatus. After some discussion the same was
referred to the committee on jurisprudence.
On motion of Mr. Smith, the board adjourned until
9 A. M. Wednesday.
The rest of the day was spent in canvassing the
election returns in the county clerk's office.
THIRD DAY, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13.
Board met pursuant to adjournment. Journal
read and approved.
Judge J. E. Eggleston appeared before the
board and asked that the salary of the Surrogate's clerk be raised on account
of additional duties required of him by recent legislation.
On motion of Mr. O'Donnell:
Resolved, That the
salary of the Surrogate's clerk be fixed at $500 per annum and that all fees
collected for certified papers in Surrogate's office shall be paid to the
county. Carried.
The board then considered several cases of
alleged erroneous assessment and adjourned to 1 o'clock, P. M.
At the afternoon session the board engaged
in Committee work, and at 4 o'clock P. M. adjourned to the following morning.
FOURTH DAY, THURSDAY, NOV 14.
Journal read and approved. A communication
was read from the Secretary of the Fish, Game and Forrest Commission, relative
to the appointment of special Fish and Game protectors. Referred to Messrs.
Frisbie, Holton and DeLong as a committee to investigate and report.
A communication from the State Committee on
good roads was referred to same committee.
The Railroad Commissioner of the town of
Truxton submitted his report showing that it was necessary for the town to
raise $2000 principal and $4808 interest to pay on bonds in 1896, less $98 in
bank and available for that purpose.
The surrogate presented his report which
shows that he has collected in fees during the past year $80.75 which has been
turned over to the clerk leaving a balance due him on salary of $319.25.
The present bonded indebtedness of the town
of Taylor is $34,500. Necessary to raise the ensuing year $1000 of principal
and $1380 interest.
The committee appointed at the last session of
the board to settle with the outgoing Supt. of the Poor reported that his accounts
were correct.
The committee appointed to visit the County
Alms house reported that they found everything in good order.
On motion of Mr. Bingham the clerk was
authorized to receive proposals for printing 3500 copies of the Supervisors Journal,
to be printed in same style as last year. The proposals to be opened on Monday
morning next.
CAUSED
BY LOW WATER.
Four Men
Killed by the Explosion of the Boiler of Lehigh Locomotive No. 13—The Accident
Occurred Near Warwick, N. Y.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—A special dispatch to the
"Recorder" from Warwick, N. Y., says: With an awful roar Lehigh and Hudson engine No. 13 blew up to-day and caused the death of four men. The dead
are.
Herbert Beetneer, fireman, Easton.
Wm. Cooper, engineer, Philadelphia.
Martin O'Neill, conductor, Belvidere.
James L. Sloane, brakeman, Phillipsburg.
The force of the explosion was so great that
the boiler was thrown from the trucks [sub-chassis], but the latter remained on
the rails. The train that consisted of thirty cars, although it was running on
a downgrade, was stopped by the brakeman, but not until it had run fully a mile
and a half.
The victims of the accident were hurled in
all directions, their clothing stripped from their bodies and the tattered
garments fell in branches of trees along the tracks where they remained
hanging. The first body found was Cooper's. It was pinioned under the shattered
boiler. He had been crushed to death by the mass of iron and steel.
O'Neil had been blown on the rails and run
over by the train, his body cut to pieces and otherwise horribly mutilated, while
Sloane was hanging unconscious on a barb wire fence, fifty feet away. He lived
only a few minutes, dying in great agony.
Fireman Beetner was blown out of the cab and
landed in an open field twenty yards from the explosion. His coat, vest and
shirt were torn from his back and when he was found by the rescuing party he
was wandering in a dazed condition, clad only in his shoes, stockings and
trousers. He was taken to Easton; but he did not long survive.
The train started from Maybrook without a
conductor at 9:45 o'clock last night and ran to Hudson Junction before his absence
was discovered. Then the engineer put the train on a siding, ran back and
picked up the conductor. Conductor O'Neil remained on the engine, where he was
joined by his head brakeman when the train was again started. The explosion occurred
before the train had proceeded five miles further. No explanation of the cause
of the accident has been advanced, but it is supposed to have been caused by
low water.
THE E.
& C. N. Y. R. R.
ACTIVE
OPERATIONS DISCONTINUED.
Injunction
Served on the Company—The Bridge Completed.
Last week Frank C. Welch procured an
injunction which prohibits the construction company from having their tracks
across his farm situated between this place and McGrawville. The right of way
had not been procured from him and the company refused to pay the price he
asked. The injunction was served after we went to press last week, and unless
some satisfactory arrangement can be made, the matter will have to be settled
in the courts which will cause considerable delay.
Twenty carloads of iron were on the side
track at Bethlehem, Pa., and were about to start for Cortland, but when the
injunction was served the construction company ordered them unloaded as it was
thought to be unwise to tie up so much money without being able to use the
iron.
The bridge over the Tioughnioga has been
completed and a construction train has been over the structure. The iron has
been laid for some distance on the east side of the river. It is very
unfortunate that this delay should occur at this time as the track would surely
have been laid to Cincinnatus in a few weeks.
"The
Mikado."
The coming performance of Gilbert-Sullivan's
most charming opera "The Mikado" to be given by our local talent some
time in December, is likely to be head and shoulders ahead of anything of the
kind ever done by our amateurs. The chorus of forty-five are all picked voices
and the cast comprises some of our best musicians.
Incidental to the opera will be introduced
twenty Baby Japs who will appear before the Mikado in a series of tableaux and
pretty dances. The costumes will be strikingly characteristic and a special set
of scenery will be used for the occasion. The entire stage will be draped with
Japanese lanterns and in the second act there will be an electrical display
such as is seldom seen outside the large cities.
Notwithstanding the large expense gone to in
this production it has been decided to place the price of seats at popular
rates, 25, 50 and 75 cents with a special matinee price of 50 and 25 cents.
The preliminary tickets will be on sale in a
few days by the members of the company.
NEIGHBORING
COUNTIES.
TOMPKINS.—The inmates of the county [alms]
house number about sixty.
A farmer in Ulysses had seven hundred
barrels of apples.
Ithaca is to have a new catholic church, to
cost over $50,000.
The oldest inmate of the county house is
upwards of ninety years.
Two carloads of fruit are being shipped
daily by the Ithaca Canning Co.
Two Ithaca sportsmen bagged fifteen
partridges near Speedsville, one day last week.
We learn that the Morse Chain Works at
Trumansburg are preparing to run night and day.
Three salt veins underlie Ithaca, between
the surface and a depth of 2,200 feet, which aggregate 150 feet in thickness.
What lies below nobody knows.
Last week, Dixoneer, Dana Rhodes' colt,
returned to Groton. Dixoneer has done good work on the track this season and
has a record of 2:28 1/2. Good, indeed, for a three-year-old.
Last Thursday a commission of lunacy made an
examination of George H. Warner of Etna, as to the question of his sanity. He
was declared insane and taken to Willard asylum.
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| Henry J. Coggeshall. |
◘ James K. McGuire was elected mayor of
Syracuse last week by a plurality of over 2,000 votes. The entire democratic
city ticket was elected. Mr. McGuire is a bright young man and will give the
city what it has not had for many years, a good business administration.
◘ The Cortland Standard is deriving
much solid comfort in contemplating the predictions alleged to have been made
by prominent democrats before election, in case the republicans were successful
at the polls. It is so seldom the
Standard affects to believe anything
that prominent democrats say, that its course in this instance becomes most
noticeable. As a rule it would denounce any prediction made by a democrat as
stuff and nonsense or a barefaced lie.
Does the Standard
believe the predictions alleged to have been made by Senator Hill and other
prominent democratic statesmen?
◘ Henry J. Coggeshall was elected Senator in
the Oneida county district by a plurality of more than 4000 over his republican
opponent. Coggeshall has represented the district for several terms, but he was
too independent last winter so suit the republican politicians of his district
and they turned him down and nominated Frederick G. Weaver. Coggeshall ran on an
independent ticket and won. He is a republican but he is not now in good
standing with the politicians of his party, who are threatening to ignore him
entirely in the Senate. Coggeshall is too able a man to be downed easily.
HERE AND
THERE.
The Normal team will play the High school
football team of Binghamton in that city to-morrow.
W. J. Buchanan Hose Co. of McGrawville give
their second annual party in that village Wednesday evening, Nov. 27.
The case of the Village of Cortland vs. Mrs.
Anna Bates charged with violating the excise laws has been adjourned to Nov.
20.
The stockholders of the H. M Whitney wagon
company will elect directors at their office in this place Nov. 21, at 2
o'clock P. M.
Chestnut time has come and gone and still we
are not happy, because the Industrial edition bids fair to "linger in the
lap of spring."
The Avalon Social club will have a private
dance in Empire hall on Thanksgiving night. McDermott's orchestra will furnish
the music.
The lawyers of this county will meet in
Judge Eggleston's office in this village Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 3 o'clock for
the purpose of forming a county bar association.
Joseph Jefferson will appear in "Rip
Van Winkle" in the Lyceum theatre in Ithaca Saturday evening, Dec. 28. A
large party of Cortland people are making arrangements to attend.
The comedy "Eight Bells" as
produced by the Byrne Bros. in the opera house last Saturday evening was an
immense success. The large audience went home perfectly satisfied with the
entertainment.
The north end of Charles-st., which has
never been opened to the public was last week thrown open to teams and
pedestrians mainly owing to the efforts of Mr. H. F. Bliss. It is a great
improvement.
The case of The People agst. John H. Howard,
charged with violating the excise law came up before Justice Bull on Monday
morning. No one appearing for the prosecution, Mr. Howard was discharged.
There were two games of football on the fair
grounds last Saturday afternoon. The Normals beat the Binghamton High school team
by a score of 32 to 0, and the Ithaca high school team worsted the Normal
juniors by a score of 6 to 0.
Mrs. John Palmer of South Cortland has to
day given to the Cortland County Home for aged women the sum of $500. Mrs.
Palmer has offered to do the same for the Cortland hospital and the transfer of
the money is expected to be made on Thursday. The terms of both gifts are that the
donor shall receive the interest on the money during her lifetime.—Standard.
Mr. A. S. Burgess has had plans drawn for a
new building to be erected on Railroad-st. in rear of his present quarters, as soon
as the weather will permit next spring. It will cover his entire vacant lot on
that street and will be three stories high. The interior of the rooms on the
second floor of the old building will be changed and a bay window will project
from that floor out on Railroad-st. The outside appearance of the entire
building will be changed and improved. The walls are to be handsomely painted
and penciled and the block will be a decided ornament to the street when
finished. The change will give Mr. Burgess the extra room required for his
increasing business and his immense stock of clothing.
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