Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday,
December 12, 1895.
MILITARY CALLED OUT.
Topeka
Mob Declares War on Ghoulish Medics.
ATTEMPT
TO BURN THE COLLEGE.
Numerous
Grave Robberies by the Students the Cause—Bodies of Three Prominent Women
Have Been Found In the Dissecting Room.
TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 13.—The recent revolting
grave robberies in this city have aroused the people to the highest pitch of indignation,
and at 8 o'clock last night a mob began forming in the streets, the avowed
purpose being to burn the Kansas medical college in which, during the past
three days, the bodies of two well-known women have been found. Both had been stolen
from the graves soon after burial.
The police learned that there was a movement
on foot to assemble a mob to attack the institution, which is located at Twelfth
and Taylor streets.
The faculty of the college called upon the
police for protection. The students were all sent home and a large squad of policemen
were on hand to guard the building.
A guard of militiamen from Battery B of this
city is stationed at their arsenal to prevent a capture of the arms stored
there.
Upon the request of the sheriff the governor
has ordered the infantry company at Lawrence to be ready to respond to a call
at any moment. The men are now assembled at the station at Lawrence.
While it is believed the precautions that have
been taken will prevent any violent demonstration, the men in the streets are loud
in their threats.
All the Ancient Order of United Workmen lodges
met to denounce the outrage and demand a full investigation to discover the
ghouls.
A. N. Drake of North Topeka, whose wife died
last week, discovered that her grave had been robbed. The corpse was found at
the Kansas medical college.
On Monday I. O. Van Fleet, who had buried
his wife but a few hours before, found her mutilated and disfigured remains on
the dissecting table at the college. This discovery resulted in the arrest of
S. A. Johnson, a student who acts as janitor of the institution.
At 8 o'clock P. H. Lillis identified the
third body at the college as that of his mother, who died recently.
These revelations were the cause of the
demonstration.
CHIEF
SHAKER ELOPES.
Shining
Light of Lebanon Settlement Flies With a Bicycle Girl.
ALBANY, Dec. 12.—The Lebanon Shakers, who
for 40 years have held the position of the largest settlement in the country, are
mourning the loss of their chief elder, a man named Daniel Offord, who was made
chief elder but three years ago, and a young woman named Mabel Franklin, who
has been in the community but six months as a sister, but who had lived near the
settlement about three years.
Miss Franklin is about 25 years old and the
elder about 55, and the latter has been a Shaker for the past 30 years.
The woman was an expert bicycle rider. The
elopement occurred last Friday, and there is no trace of the pair.
Elder Daniel was supposed to be above reproach.
The least word of suspicion against him would have been met with an indignant
rebuke. Elder Daniel was the shining light, the model for the young members of
the community.
Elopements have occurred before, but only
the younger and less important folk have heretofore been guilty of the sin.
During Miss Franklin's stay in the community
the Shakers defrayed the expenses for a skillful surgical operation on her. After
considerable contention last summer she also gave up her bicycle.
IMPORTANT
CHANGES
In
Methods of Legislation to he Submitted this Year.
(Special
to the STANDARD.)
ALBANY, Dec. 12.—The commission appointed by
the governor to suggest changes in the methods of legislation has about
completed its work, end the report will be in the hands of the executive by the
fifteenth of the month. The governor will go over the report, and such suggestions
as he approves of will be incorporated in his message. They will then go before
the legislature, where they will be thoroughly considered before all or part of
them are adopted. The governor may modify many of the suggestions of the commission
and these may be still further amended and modified when they come up for
adoption before the legislature.
Some of the commission's suggested changes
are excellent and have met with the approval of those legislators who have been
made acquainted with them. Others are
not meeting with approval, and if they are not thrown out by the governor they
will be by the legislature.
In its report the commission has united in
recommending certain sections to be added to the legislative law requiring publications
of a notice of intention to apply for local and private acts, publication of
the synopsis of such acts and direct personal notice of such application to all
interests which might be adversely affected by them.
The commission has also agreed upon recommending
changes in the rules which will act as additional safeguards to prevent the
passage of laws that are merely private and local acts disguised under such heads
as will make them appear as general bills. The commission will make several
suggestions that will tend to bring about improvements in the legislative
calendars. One of these suggestions will call for the setting apart of certain
days for the consideration of bills that would come under certain general heads
and also for special acts. By doing this the members will have notice of what
special line of business will be considered on certain dates. Committees will
also be required to report on all bills submitted to them, with reasons for the
action taken. This will prevent smothering bills in committee.
There will be many other changes suggested
by the committee, but those are the principal ones.
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| Samuel Gompers. |
FEDERATION
OF LABOR.
Convention
Puts In a Busy Day. Resolutions Adopted.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—At the session of the
Federation of Labor, John J. Junio of the New York State Federation of Labor introduced
a resolution protesting against the proposed return to the old contract prison
labor system.
The committee on resolutions reported favorably
a resolution asking that all outside trades unions be invited to become affiliated
with the American Federation of Labor.
A resolution by Samuel Gompers against capital
punishment was adopted.
Delegate W. C. Pomeroy of Chicago opposed it
as being hysterical. There were crimes, he said, for which the only adequate punishment
was death.
Mr. Gompers in speaking to the question said:
"I deny the right of any man to take life legally or illegally, and what
is denied the individual cannot be conceded to the government."
The resolution was carried.
A resolution was referred to the committee to
the effect that the representatives of the two great parties be interrogated as
to their position regarding the 8-hour work day.
A resolution was adopted reaffirming the declaration
in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.
A resolution by Delegate Andrew Fursueth of
San Francisco, protesting against the passage in congress of the compulsory arbitration
bill, was adopted.
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| "Give it another twist, Grover, we're all with you!" |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
London Punch has published some verses in reference
to the position of the United
States concerning Venezuela and the Monroe doctrine, in which occur the
following lines: "But when things look squiffy, we'll back down in a
jiffy, and drop the name of Monroe." Apparently England is on the point of
finding out whether the United States will drop the name of Monroe, when things
begin to look "squiffy."
There is only one sentiment in America in
regard to the Venezuelan
question, and that is that England must not be allowed to take one foot of the
disputed territory till the whole boundary question between herself and
Venezuela has been submitted to the fullest investigation. If it shall be found
she has a right to the land as far as the Schomburgk line, which she claims,
then the United States will be the last one to interfere with her possession of
it. But her claim will not be allowed until she proves it beyond dispute. To
that the United States is bound by all the history of her past, all the policy
of her future.
If without arbitration England seeks to hold
the Schomburgk line, it will be regarded as an act of hostility by this government
and as an infringement of the Monroe doctrine. England's record in the
past is that of grabbing whatever she can get, right or wrong, and this record
tends to foster little faith in her justice when it comes to seizing territory
anywhere. The Monroe doctrine must be maintained by the United States. It is
vital to our own existence. It will be matter of deep regret if we must
maintain it forcibly, but we are ready for even that.
BREVITIES.
—The annual election of officers of the
Union Veteran legion takes place in G. A. R. hall to-night.
—The ten-cent supper at the Universalist church
last night was largely attended and the apron sale was well patronized.
—The new iron fence to be erected along the
north line of the Normal school property has arrived and will soon be set up.
—New advertisements to-day are—Beard &
Peck, page 6; McKinney & Doubleday,
page 6; Sturtevant House, page 5; New York Sun, page 5.
—Mr.
F. H. Shevalier, formerly of Cortland but now of Delhi, has entered the
mercantile business in that place having just opened a department store.
—A member of the Lewis county grand jury was
taken suddenly insane last Thursday while in the discharge of his duties in the
Lowville court house.
—The regular meeting of the Sons of Veterans
occurs to-morrow night when the annual election of officers will take place. A
full attendance is desirable.
—The first Christmas tree of the season was
erected in the north window of Beaudry's department store to-day. It is laden
with toys of all kinds pleasing to the little ones.
—The Barber Hose fair at Marathon opened
last night with a large house. It will continue to-night and to-morrow night.
Cortland talent will take part in to-night's program.
—The examination in the matter of The People
against Patrick Tobin charged with grand larceny is in progress before Justice
Thomas H. Dowd to- day. Attorney Fred Hatch appears for The People and John
Courtney, Jr., for the defendant.
—Michael Nix appeared in police court last
night and pleaded guilty to the charge of selling liquor without a license and
paid a fine of $35. The case of the Village of Cortland against Timothy Noonan
was settled by the defendant paying $50.
—A Cortland lady this noon made an ineffectual
effort to post a letter to a fire alarm box on the Messenger House corner. The
mail box was on the opposite corner. She seemed highly disgusted because she
couldn't get the lid of the box up to slip in the letter.
—Mrs. Clarice Fowler, formerly of Fabius,
Onondaga county, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. John Sharp, 30
Union-st., at 9 o'clock last night, aged 84 years. The funeral will take place
from the residence of her daughter Sunday morning at 8:30 o'clock and at Fabius
at 1:30 o'clock P. M. where burial will be made.
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