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Cortland
Evening Standard, Wednesday, May 27, 1896.
HOT FIGHTING IN CUBA.
Strong Indications of a Victory For Cubans.
BATTLE LASTED SEVERAL HOURS.
Spanish
Claim to Have Inflicted a Defeat Upon the Insurgents, But Remains Silent
Regarding Their Own Losses—Other Cuban War News.
HAVANA, May 27.—A numerous band of insurgents
attacked a party of cane cutters on the plantation of Armonia in the Sagua
district, when the guerrilla force of Olavarietta came to their assistance and
the insurgents were dispersed. A sergeant of guerrillas, one soldier and two laborers
were killed.
A detachment under Mendez encountered an
insurgent band and killed one of them. The troops also had one killed and two
wounded.
General Suraez Valdez at the head of a force
of 1,070 left Consolacion del Sur in Pinar del Rio. This force sustained a
severe combat with a numerous band of insurgents, the majority of whom were
infantry under Antonio Macao and Perico Diaz.
The insurgents held entrenched positions on
the mountains and hillside and these they attempted to hold in a stubborn fight
of five hours. It is officially reported that they were finally dislodged with
artillery, 39 of them having been killed.
Among the killed was Major Naranjo and two foreigners.
They are said to have carried off over 100 wounded. It is rumored also that the
leader Carrillo was killed.
The persistent rumors which are circulated that
the gunboats Lince and Ardilla had unsuccessfully chased the Bermuda and the
Laurada are untrue.
The Competitor prisoners are being treated
as political prisoners and not as criminals. It is untrue that they have
complained of ill treatment. They are at liberty to communicate with their
consuls and they would inform them of any bad treatment they had received.
Major Capdevilla has had a fight with the
insurgents near San Cristobal in Pinar del Rio. He indicted upon them a numerous
loss and captured their arms and ammunition.
The Cuban budget shows $30,000,000 of income
and $90,000,000 of expenses, not including the military reinforcements. Taxes
will be increased, and new tributes will be exacted on the tobacco consumption
on account of the reforms in the customs tariff.
General Arolas was reported to have retired
from the command of the troche on account of sickness. It is now reported that
he has resigned his command, as his opinion was against that of Captain General
Weyler in changing his plans and withdrawing troops from the troche. Probably General
Arolas will leave for Spain on May 30.
The Spanish government has obtained six
models of explosive bullets for examination.
Spanish
Report a Victory.
MADRID, May 27.—Advices from Havana state
that General Valdez has defeated a portion of Maceo's band near Consolacion in
Pinar del Rio, killing 39 and wounding 24 of the insurgents.
PROHIBITIONISTS
MEET.
National
Convention Convened at Pittsburg This Morning.
PITTSBURG, May 27.—All the delegates to the
national Prohibition convention have arrived and thousands of visitors interested
in the proceedings have come with them. As each state delegation arrived the
friends of both factions, free silver and gold standard, went after them with
arguments of persuasion. Each faction is doing its utmost to proselyte
supporters of the other's principles. Each faction claims a majority of the
delegates, but from the eagerness of the various leaders to win converts it is
as yet anybody's fight.
The National Intercollegiate Prohibition
association, claiming to represent 150 colleges of this country, held an
oratorical contest last night.
Price of
Bread Advanced.
NEW YORK,
May 27.—The Hebrew boss bakers have announced an increase of 1 cent a loaf on
the east side. It is given out that the increase in the price of bread is to
offset the increase in the rate of wages recently demanded by the employees.
EDISON'S LATEST.
A Discovery Which In Expected to Revolutionize
Electric Lighting.
NEW YORK,
May 27.—The Electrical Review in its
latest issue announced by authority that Nikola Tesla had perfected his vacuum
tube system of electric lighting without wires, the possibilities of which he
first brought to public notice five years ago in a lecture before the American
Institute of electrical engineers. This light is whiter, more brilliant and more
intense than the arc light and is produced with a smaller amount of electrical energy.
A laboratory photograph has been made by means of this light with an exposure of
only two seconds. The detail in the photograph is remarkably fine. Tesla further
states that his apparatus has been greatly simplified, and he will soon have it
ready for practical use.
Working
on different lines Thomas E. Edison has, according to The Electrical Review published today, succeeded in developing a
new kind of electric lamp or vacuum tube by means of which the Roentgen X rays
are turned into pure, white light. Edison's new lamp is an ordinary Crookes
tube, coated on the interior surface with crystals of a new fluorescing substance
which he has discovered similar to tungstate of calcium. The X rays, in passing
through this coating of crystals, are changed to light. Very little heat is
generated and nearly the whole of the electrical energy expended is transformed
into light.
The new
lamp is used in place of the Crookes tube with the ordinary X rays apparatus.
Mr. Edison believes that there are great possibilities in his discovery and is
now enthusiastically at work perfecting his apparatus in commercial form. He
expects that before long he will so develop it that it may be used with high economy
on an ordinary incandescent circuit.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Timely
but Useless.
The Brooklyn Eagle, a fearless Democratic
newspaper, plainly tells the free silver men of its party what they must expect
if they control the National convention. It talks out in this manly fashion:
"The Democratic National convention
will quite possibly be the scene of a bolt. If a majority of the delegates to
that convention favor and secure a platform for the free and unlimited coinage
of silver in the ratio of 16 to 1, the delegates who are against the
proposition should certainly not stay in the convention, and very probably will
not do so. The degradation of values is not a subject to be decided by a
majority vote. Such a degradation is an immorality and a dishonesty. It cannot
be made valid or binding by any roll call in any convention or by the counting
of noses or the voting of coupons in any newspaper. It is a proposition which
is condemned by the conscience of man, and no honest man registers the slavery
of his conscience among the obligations imposed on him by membership of a party
or entrance in a convention.
"We say these things because we notice
that the southern states are instructing their delegates to support the silver
proposition already described. Those states have not heretofore instructed
their delegates to national conventions. Their present instruction of them is
not only a new departure, but it is in the wrong direction. A free silver
platform will not only probably split the Democratic national convention, but
it will certainly cost the Democratic nominees the loss of every northern state.
The South and the West can secure a free silver platform by paying the price of
Republican national success for it."
Wise and courageous as the Eagle is, its
warning will fall on deaf ears so far as the Southern and Western delegates to
the Chicago convention are concerned. It might as well reason with a cyclone or
argue with a Populist lunatic. All the elements are brewing for the loudest
monkey-and-parrot time at the coming national Democratic convention that this
country has ever known.
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| Edison working on kinetoscope. |
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Adherence to the gold standard
means simply that all dollars shall be equal to the gold dollar in business and
commercial transactions. Such equality could not be maintained under the free
coinage of silver or the issue of state bank notes. That is the position of the
Republican party and must be the position of the candidates nominated at St.
Louis.
STORM CAME AS
USUAL, PROGRAM UNFINISHED.
Four Events
Completed, Then the Hail Came—Races Declared Off—Good Crowd in Attendance.
Each member of the Cortland Athletic
association wore a broad smile as the day dawned bright this morning with no
indications of rain. Rainy weather has usually accompanied a C. A. A. race-meet
and the fact that to-day promised to be clear was very gratifying, not only to
the managers, but to the contestants and to the hundreds of people interested
as spectators. The track was never in better condition than this morning, and
notwithstanding the stiff breeze that was blowing, some good time was looked
for as there were to be a large number of fast riders on the track this
afternoon.
Early this morning wheelmen begun arriving
from nearby towns, and every incoming train brought many more. The 10:22 train
from Syracuse brought the largest number of any. Some of the visiting wheelmen
were quartered at the Messenger House while others were at the Cortland House.
During the noon hour the crowds began to
thicken up and soon after the roadrace started at 1:30 o'clock the rain fell in
sheets. Down here in the village the roads quickly became very muddy, but fortunately
for the racers the shower was not very extended and hardly more than a sprinkle
passed over the fair grounds, while the racers who were then on their way to
Homer did not feel any effects of it all.
The
six and one half mile roadrace was the first event of the day and the start was
made at 1:30 o'clock sharp from the Cortland House. The course was up North
Main-st. to Fitz-ave. [West Main Street] to the back road to Homer, to the old
cotton factory in Homer on Clinton-st., down Clinton-st. to Main-st., Homer by
the Hotel Windsor, and back again to the fair grounds.
There were eight starters, Fred Pierce and
George Hitchcock had a two-minute handicap, Robert Carpenter and Ed Huguenin
had one and one-half minutes. Brownell Bulkley was allowed one minute, L. D.
Moul a half minute and B. C. Hollister and O. B. Smith started at the scratch.
The first man home was Brownel Bulkley and
his actual riding time was
17 min. 50 sec. The
second man home was Robert Carpenter. His time was not taken. The third man
home was B. C. Hollister. His actual riding time was 16 min. 49 sec.
Immediately at the close of the roadrace the
track events began. There were seventeen events on the program, but only three
track events had taken place when it began to hail and rain, making the track
one sea of mud and water.
Water six inches
deep ran around the track at the pole and as it was impossible to continue the
remainder of the races they were declared off.
A considerable crowd was on the grounds and
everybody got to shelter as rapidly as possible. The wind drove the hail into
the grandstand and all were thoroughly uncomfortable. As soon as the shower was
over everyone flocked to the [trolley] cars to get home.
The first track race was the half-mile Junior
C. A. A. handicap in which there were ten starters. Brownel Bulkley won in one
min., ten and four-fifths sec. Robert Carpenter was second and Frank Pike
third. Bulkley and Pike started scratch and Carpenter had a ten-yard handicap.
One mile open—First heat. Ten starters.
William Birdsall. Y. M. C. A., Syracuse, won; Weise Hainmer, S. A. A.,
Syracuse, second; J. E. Morrow, A. A. C., Elmira, third. Time—3 min., 16 2-5.
Second heat—Ten starters. J. Fred Barry, S.
A. A., Syracuse, won; L. H. Tucker, S. A. A., Syracuse, second; F. L.,
Trappe, Syracuse, third. Time—2 min., 54 4-5 sec.
Final heat—Birdsall won; Hammer, second; G.
W. Thorne, B. A. A., Binghamton, third. Time—2 min, 56 sec.
Between the second and final heats of this
race Masters Fred and Leon Beaudry, aged 6 and 4 years respectively, clad in
yellow sweaters and seated on a Stearns tandem built especially for their use
gave a fine half-mile exhibition in 2 min. 15 sec.
Just after the start in the second heat of
the mile open, David Horton, a one- armed rider from Oswego, took a fall, badly
spraining his remaining arm, the right one, and bending the wheel frame. He was
not seriously hurt. The storm came at the close of this race and the meet of
1896 was ended.
Hailstorm in
Cortland.
For ten minutes this afternoon the hail fell
in Cortland at a prodigious rate. It is rare indeed that a hailstorm here lasts
as long as did this one, and the stones were some of them three-quarters of an
inch in diameter. Before the storm had ceased the ground was as white as if
snow had fallen. Many people were out snowballing. The hailstones lay on the
ground for more than a half hour after the storm and after the sun had come
out. It is feared that it has injured fruit.
KILLED NEAR ETNA.
L. R. Jenks of
Groton Struck by a Lehigh Valley Train.
Train 116, the west bound passenger which
goes through Cortland at 8:56 on the Lehigh Valley road this morning struck and
killed a man at Snyder's crossing near Etna. From papers in his possession and
from a description of the horse which he was driving he was identified as L. R.
Jenks of Groton. Mr. Jenks was a highly respected resident of Groton and was
about sixty years old. He was an agent for the Groton Carriage company and was
out this morning on business for his company. He was driving a white pony with
black spots, attached to a carriage.
The engineer of the train reports that Mr. Jenks
attempted to cross the track ahead of the train. When exactly on the track his
horse stopped and before he could be started the train struck him. The horse was
instantly killed and the buggy was smashed to kindling wood. Mr. Jenks was
thrown some distance and was instantly killed. The train was stopped and an
investigation was made. A telephone inquiry sent from Etna to Groton brought
the information that it was undoubtedly Mr. Jenks. A coroner was summoned from
Ithaca who took charge of the remains.
Mr. Jenks leaves a wife and one daughter Mrs.
Benjamin Losey. Mr. Losey was in Cortland attending the races at the fair
grounds when he received word of the death of Mr. Jenks.
BREVITIES.
—Snowballing is in order this afternoon.
—The Fortnightly club met this afternoon
with Miss Harriet Allen.
—The Normals were defeated by the Cascadillas
of Ithaca Monday afternoon by a score of 14 to 4.
—Special meeting of the A. O. H. will be
held to-night at Empire hall. All members are requested to be present.
—The front of the clothingstore of Bingham
Brothers & Miller has been painted blue, corresponding in color with their
wrapping paper.
—New
advertisements to-day are—W. J. Perkins, don't forget, page 2; F. I. Graham, witchhazel,
page 4; Kellogg & Cutis, special sale, page 5.
—The C. L. S. C. will meet with Mrs. F. J.
Doubleday, 44 Port Watson-st., Monday evening, June 1, at 7:30 o'clock. Roll
call, "Current Items."
—The Cortland STANDARD, one of the best
interior dailies in the state, looks very neat in its new dress and is as newsy
as ever.—Oneonta Star.
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