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| 1893 map of Cuba. |
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| Maximo Gomez. |
DEMAND A CIVIL TRIAL.
Uncle
Sam Intervenes In Behalf of Americans.
TWO
OF THE COMPETITOR PARTY.
As They Were Captured in Cuban
Territory, the Spaniards Will Probably Grant the Request of the Consul General
Williams.
HAVANA, May
14. —The United States has intervened in behalf of two more of the men of the schooner Competitor.
The men's
names are Ipas Barnett and William Leavitt. As cabled last Monday they were
brought here from Bahia Honda, having been captured in Pinar del Rio after they
landed. They are citizens of the United States and so notified the United
States consul general, Mr. Williams. They also informed the consul general that
they were unarmed when captured.
Consul General
Williams has in consequence presented the claim he regularly makes in such
cases that they shall be tried by the ordinary civil court, and not by court
martial, according to the rights guaranteed to the citizens of the United
States by treaty.
The cases
of these two men differ from those of the five other Competitor captives only
inasmuch as they had landed in Cuba before being captured and so have a clearer
title to a civil trial as being residents of Cuba, as technically provided in
the treaty guarantee. It was on the ground of non-residence that the
authorities at first denied a civil trial to the men captured on board the
Competitor.
In view of
these facts, it is not expected that any difficulty will be made by according Barnett
and Leavitt a civil trial.
The gunboat
Diego Velasquez has captured some empty boats, in addition to the one captured
after the crew had succeeded in escaping to shore. These boats are believed to
have been abandoned by an expedition which landed and joined the insurgents.
It is
reported that the insurgent band of Pacho Carillo has been seen passing near Remedios.
The united
bands of Mirabal, Tumbo, Cuatro and Jesus Perez have burned the bridge over the
River Seco and marched by way of Jianaguayabo, Texico, Arana and Rojaz, going
by the Platero road to Puerto Principe.
It is also
reported that six miles from Santo Domingo, in Santa Clara, there has been seen
to pass an armed cavalry band of 1,500 men, said to be under command of Lacret
and going in an easterly direction. Maximo Gomez, also with a numerous band,
has passed from Placetas by Villa Clara and near to Santo Domingo, going in the
direction of Cienfuegos. It is supposed that Lacret is endeavoring to effect a
junction with Gomez.
In a
skirmish near Guantanamo, the insurgents lost two killed and the troops captured
some arms and a prisoner upon whom important documents were found. The man
captured was an insurgent lieutenant.
The local
guerrilla of Blondron, province of Matanzas, and a detachment from the Maria
Christina battalion, have been engaged with a force of about 700 insurgents.
The latter was dispersed with loss. The troops had one officer and six privates
wounded.
A volunteer
force belonging to Mantua, province of Pinar del Rio, has been engaged with a
band of insurgents at Triay, in the same province. Seven of the enemy were
killed.
The Spanish
authorities repeat the assertion that the insurgents are using explosive bullets,
contrary to all international usages.
Spanish Badly Defeated.
KEY WEST, Fla.,
May 14.—Advices from Havana state that in the recent action between Antonio
Maceo and General Ynclan at Carcarajicaras, Pinar del Rio, 400 Spaniards were
killed, while the Cubans only lost 17. Socarras, the famous Cuban leader, was
killed in this battle.
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| Photo copied from Grip's Historical Souvenir of Cortland. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
No More Convict Competition.
The Troy
Times of May 13 republished an editorial which appeared in The
STANDARD May 9 upon the laws passed this year upon
prison labor and adds the following comment:
The Troy
Times to-day reproduces on another page an article from the Cortland STANDARD, which
carefully sets forth the provisions of the six bills relating to the state
prisons that have just become laws. Cortland is the home of Hon. W. J.
Mantanye, who is a member of the state prison commission and the author of the
measures in question. The STANDARD'S presentation of the case is therefore
authentic and its article will be of great interest to Troy Times readers, all
of whom are more or less directly affected by convict labor competition, which
the new laws are intended to inhibit. At the same time they substitute a system
for producing articles needed by the prisoners themselves and by the various
charitable, penal and other institutions in the state and its civil divisions
which will make impossible the evils of idleness. Mr. Mantanye has done an
excellent work and the legislature in enacting these acts has done wisely and
followed out the will of the people who voted so emphatically in favor of the revised
constitution.
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| General Valeriano Weyler. |
◘ A cousin of the Duke of Montrose, a nobleman in his own right and a
lineal descendant of Robert Bruce, Sir Robert James Stuart Graham, is at
present a humble clerk in Brooklyn, and out of employment at that, living in a
tenement house.
◘ We are in some danger of being swamped with Italians if many more such
shiploads of them as the Belgravia, recently landed at New York, are brought over.
There were 1,548 of them, more than the population of some counties in this
Union.
An Auspicious Opening [in Cortland].
The Candy Kitchen which has recently removed
into the store in the Grand
Central block, formerly
occupied by Fred I. Graham, was formally opened last evening. The Messrs. Rood
were in a very pleasant mood as they noticed the crowds pass through the front
store to the ice cream department which was brilliantly illuminated with a
combination of gas and electric light.
The ice cream room has a seating capacity of
seventy people and for two hours last night the waiters were kept busy in serving
cream. The Opera House orchestra was in attendance and furnished fine music
during the evening.
Antiquity of Carrier Pigeons.
The carrier pigeon was in use by the state
department of the Ottoman empire as early as the fourteenth century. Lithgow
says that a dispatch was carried from Bagdad to Aleppo, a 30 days' journey on horses, in 48 hours.
Clionian Lawn Social.
The weather could hardly have
been improved for the lawn sociable given last night by the Clionian society at
the home of Miss Maud Kinney, 54 Port Watson-st. The broad piazzas were hung
with Chinese lanterns of many different sizes, shapes and colors and the lawn
was also strung with them. A very pretty effect was produced. Upon the piazza a
large music box dispensed fine music. The tables were spread upon the lawn and
piazza and there was a constant call for strawberries and ice cream which were
delicious. Lemonade was served at a table at one side and young ladies were
ready to supply choice boutonnieres and pin them on for a nickel. A very large
company of friends of the [Normal School] society was present and a very
satisfactory sum was netted from the evening.
BREVITIES.
—Advertising car No. 2 of
Washburn circus which shows in Cortland May 21 is to-day in town.
—The STANDARD is indebted to
Hon. F. P. Saunders for a copy of the legislative manual of 1896.
—To-morrow is pay day on the D.,
L. & W. and the pay car will pass through Cortland from Syracuse in the
forenoon.
—A number of Cortland people
were in Homer last evening in attendance at a surprise for Mr. and Mrs. G. I.
Pruden.
—The Alpha C. L. S. C. will meet
with Mrs. H. H. Robbins, 20 Park-st.,
Monday evening, May 18, at 7:30 o'clock,
—The Loyal circle of King's
Daughters will meet with Mrs. Bouton, corner of Union and Owego-sts., Friday,
May 15, at 2:30 P. M.
—The Normals will play a return game
with the Ithaca high school team at the fair grounds Saturday afternoon, game
called at 2:30 o'clock.
—The ball game yesterday
afternoon between the Cortland Normals and the Homer team resulted in a victory for the Normals by a score of 13 to 3.
—The Ithaca Journal reports the names
of a number of streets that are to be paved in that city this year, and all are
to be paved with brick. No asphalt is spoken of.
—Henry Wade, a patient at the
hospital, died this morning from the effects of a cancer in the neck. He was 67
years of age. Burial at Preble at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
—New advertisements to-day are— Glann
& Clark, a tie game, page 4; G.
F. Beaudry, bicycles, page 4; F. I. Graham, bargains, page 6; C. F.
Brown, Leggett's insect powder gun, page 4.
—The Woman's Foreign Missionary society
of the First M. E. church will meet with Mrs. E. J. Nivison, 131 Tompkins-st.,
Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Tea will be served at 6 o'clock.
—All members of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union are requested to meet at headquarters promptly at
1:30 P. M. on Friday to attend in a body the funeral at 2 o'clock of Miss Sara
E. Collins.
—Mr. Frank Blair was in Truxton yesterday
on business and last evening when starting for home his team became frightened
at a runaway team and ran away themselves, considerably injuring the wagon and
also striking a young lady, knocking her to the ground but it is understood she
did not receive serious injuries.
Truxton.
TRUXTON. May 14.—One of the most
serious runaways that was ever witnessed in this place occurred at 8 o'clock
last evening. Lawrence Lundigen, a young man about 18 years old and his younger
brother who reside on the West hill about two and one-half miles from here,
were coming to the milk station with three dairys of milk. They were driving a four-year-old
colt belonging to Mr. John Flaherty. When coming down the hill one of the
sidestraps broke letting the wagon, (which was a light lumber wagon) onto the
horse's heels.
The horse started and ran down
the hill and into a hitching post in front of Mr. Jerry O'Connor's store. Here
the horse broke loose from the wagon and ran up Main-st. It was captured in the
milk station yard and was not injured. When the wagon struck the post the older
boy who was hanging to the reins was thrown to the ground striking on his head
cutting a bad gash on his nose and bruising him otherwise quite badly. The
other bay was uninjured. The milk was thrown out and spilled excepting two cans
The wagon was neatly demolished.
A team belonging to a liveryman
in Cortland, standing in front of O'Connor's store, became frightened at the
noise of the runaway milk team. They turned around and started at a lively pace
up Main-st. The wagon was overturned, throwing the driver out. They dragged the
wagon on its side until they came to the bridge in front of Muller Bros. store where
they broke loose from the wagon and ran up the street. In front of Mrs.
Hartnett's residence they ran into a tree knocking one of the horses down. Here
they were caught.
They were not injured.
The driver was somewhat bruised
about the shoulders. He returned to Cortland last night. The top was broken off
the wagon otherwise it appeared to be all right.
Mrs. Albert Muller and little
daughter and Misses Julia A. Baldwin and Ella Miller with Mr. Muller's horse
and surrey were waiting in front of Mr. Oscar Van Valkenburg's for Mrs. Van Valkenburg
who was going with them for a pleasure ride. Their horse became frightened at the
runaway milk team as it rushed by it. It started and ran and the ladies could
not control it, and ran into the driveway of the Truxton House barn. The horse
turned the corner so quickly that the surrey was overturned throwing all the occupants
out. The wagon struck against the end of Mr. Keeler's house and the horse broke
loose and ran into the hotel barn.
Help at once arrived on the
scene and the ladies were taken from under the wagon. Mrs. Muller escaped with
a few bruises. The little girl was uninjured.
Miss Miller received a bad cut on the forehead. Miss Baldwin was the most
seriously hurt. She was taken home and is suffering great pain. She is badly bruised
although no bones are broken. Just how bad she is hurt cannot be ascertained at
this writing.
The wagon was badly broken. Al
those in the accident were very fortunate as it might have been more serious
and it seems almost a miracle that no one was killed.
CRAZY PAT [local correspondent
for the Cortland Standard.]
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