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| 1876 Whitney Point, N. Y. |
POISONED HER HUSBAND.
Mrs. Eliza Thurston of Whitney Point Found
Guilty.
BINGHAMTON,
May 24.—The jury in the case of Mrs. Eliza Thurston of Whitney Point, charged
with poisoning her husband, returned yesterday a verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree. The prisoner received the verdict without flinching. The
evidence against the woman was entirely circumstantial.
The
defense will appeal the case to the court of last resort, and Mrs. Thurston's counsel
are confident that the verdict will not stand. Judge Forbes has set the time for
the application for a new trial, and the attorneys will be heard Monday morning.
Sentence
will probably be passed Tuesday, and then the attorneys for the defense will
serve on the district attorney and the county clerk notices of appeal, which
will act as a stay in the case.
JAMES BELCHER ARRESTED.
Charged with Killing Mr. Wheeler's Fine
Jersey Heifer—To be Examined on the Charge To-day.
Last
summer several cows were found dead or badly mutilated near this village but
the perpetrator of the crime could not be found. On the 7th day of the present month,
Mr. B. H. Wheeler found his fine Jersey heifer tied to a tree in the pasture, about
a mile west of the village, with her throat cut. He placed the matter in the hands
of Deputy Edwards, who started out to find the rascal. The strap and a broken whetstone
were the only clues the officer had to work on, but he followed those up and
last Saturday night be swore out a warrant before Justice Dowd and arrested James
Belcher, who resides with his parents on the corner of Wheeler-ave. and No.
Main-st., and adjoining Mr. Wheeler's home.
On the
way to jail the prisoner confessed to the officer that he was the guilty party
but denied that be killed Mr. Wheeler's cows last summer. He has been in the
employ of Wheeler. He told the officer that he had no grudge against his employer
and did not know why he killed the heifer, but something told him to do it.
Belcher
is by no means intelligent but be knows enough to know that he was committing s
crime when he killed the heifer. A few years ago be spent some years in the
Elmira reformatory for attempting to commit a rape. He is not the right sort of
person to run at large.
He was
arraigned before Justice Dowd on Monday and plead not guilty. The examination
will take place at 10 o'clock this morning. Mr. E. E. Mellon appears for the
prosecution and Geo. S. Sands for the defense.
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| Rebuilt Cortland Forging Company buildings. |
CORTLAND FORGING CO.
IMPORTANT
CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT.
The
Shops to be Rebuilt on a Larger Scale— Officers Elected —Wallace Brothers to
Engage in Other Manufacturing.
The stockholders of the Cortland Forging Co.
held a meeting in the Wallace block last Friday afternoon. Messrs. D. F. and J.
H. Wallace had made an arrangement with Messrs. Crandall, Stone & Co. of Binghamton to transfer
their stock to the latter firm and this verbal contract was fully carried out
at the meeting and the Wallace Bros. stepped down and out. A meeting of the new
stockholders was then held and the following directors were chosen for the
ensuing year: Curtis L. Kinney, C. M. Stone, W. E. Stone, C. E. Tichener, C. E.
Brooks.
The directors subsequently chose the following
officers for the ensuing year:
President—C. L. Kinney.
Vice President—C. M. Stone.
Secretary and Treasurer—C. E. Tichener.
The contract for the erection of the new buildings
has been let to Mr. Frank Groat of this place who has commenced work on the
same. They are to be completed by Sept 1. All but the forging room will be of
brick and one story high with iron roofs. The front on the north will be 120
feet long with a wing running back from each end. The wing on the west side runs
along the Lehigh Valley track and will be 340 feet in length. The shipping, crating
and japan building will be 100x80 feet. The contract for a new electric plant
has been let to the Thompson Electric Welding Co. of Lynn, Mass., and Mr. John
W. Orr left yesterday to look after its construction. They will use the
aereated fuel oil system in the new works.
Messrs. D. F. and J. H. Wallace intend to
engage in the manufacture of bicycle forgings and a new company will
undoubtedly be organized by them for that purpose. Their plans are not yet
completed but they will probably be fulminated in a few days, when we shall
have more to say concerning this new enterprise.
Cortland
Parties Interested.
(Special
to the Standard.)
CHICAGO, May 25.—The Consolidated Traction
Co. of Sioux City, Ia., was formed in this city Saturday with a capital stock
of $850,000. H. S. Hudson of Cortland, N. Y., was elected president. It is thought
that there will be a net profit in this deal of $30,000 each for Messrs H. S.
Hudson and L. J. Fitzgerald of Cortland.
NEIGHBORING
COUNTIES.
MADISON.—Eggs are down to 10 cents a dozen.
A new board of sewer commissioners has been
appointed for the village of
Oneida.
P. L. Dwight of DeRuyter has a grade Guernsey
heifer 13 months old averaging 32 pounds of milk per day.
Apple tree worms are very thick in this vicinity.
Every fruit tree is full of nests and the leaves are eaten as fast as they come
out.
David Barber, Oneida's popular base ball
catcher, has joined the Syracuse Stars on trial. If satisfactory he will
receive $250 dollars a month.
Jake Graham, the Canastota saloon man, has
sold his baby bear. It was getting to be altogether too much of a bear for
Jake's quiet tastes. His bearship has a steady job now as mascot for the
Cornell base ball club.
TOMPKINS.—Ithaca has twenty-two passenger
trains daily.
Under the Raines law the collections for
[excise tax] certificates in this county amount to about $8,000.
Monday, Wm. Ellsworth, who was sent from
this county to Auburn prison for horse stealing, was released. At the
prison gate an Ohio officer arrested him for forgery. He is a young man, 25
years of age, and has served two terms in Auburn prison.
One member of the Ithaca Choral club will
have abundant cause to long remember his trip to Elmira last Wednesday evening.
He entrusted his dress suit case, containing his dress suit, several diamonds,
some money, etc.. to a colored gentleman whom he didn't know to carry it to the
depot and the colored gentleman is carrying it yet.—Elmira Telegram.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
What
Raines Did Not Do.
The
Democratic [state] tax rate:
1891, 1.37
1893, 2.58
1894, 2.18
The Republican tax rate:
1895, 3.24
1896, 2.69
The lowest tax rate under Republican control
is higher by considerable than the highest tax rate under Democratic control.
The Cortland Standard announces that the
Hon. F. P. Saunders is a candidate for renomination to the assembly.
Syracuse has recently been made a port of
entry and John F. Nash, editor of the Courier, has been appointed surveyor of customs.
Dr. H. C. Gazlay of this town is understood to
be a candidate for the republican nomination for county treasurer. If standing up
to the party rack when fodder is scarce as well as when it is plenty counts for
anything, the doctor is certainly entitled to the best that the republican pantry affords. The doctor
has undoubtedly been turned down oftener than any other republican in the
county and always without a murmur of discontent. He is certainly entitled to
something good and if the party can settle with him by giving him this small
office they ought to be thankful.
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| Grover Cleveland. |
Washington
Letter.
(From
Our Regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, May 25th, 1896.—President Cleveland's
consistent record of refusing to sign River and Harbor Bills, to say nothing of
the extravagantly large appropriations already made by this congress and the
lack of money in sight to pay them, makes it reasonably certain that the River
and Harbor bill now in his hands, which breaks the record by providing for the
enormous expenditure of $75,000,000, will be vetoed. Congress is expecting a
veto and, owing to the wide distribution of the appropriations provided for in
the bill, expects to be
able to pass it over the veto. It was stated in Washington ten days ago that
enough votes had been pledged to pass the bill over the veto. While nothing is
positively known democrats generally hope and believe that the President will
make his message vetoing this bill a ringing protest against the extravagance
of this Congress—something that will make a strong and convincing democratic
campaign document.
HERE AND
THERE.
The Cortland Wagon Co. has disposed of about
3,000 bicycles this season.
Cortland A. O. H. will give an excursion to
the Thousand Islands on July 25th.
R. E. Allen has purchased the Crittenden
& Chubb wagon business on Railroad-st.
Some one waltzed away with a 40 quart milk
can found in a milk dealer's wagon last Saturday.
Rev. Jesse A. Hungate of Homer will deliver
the Memorial day address in this place to-morrow.
G J. Mager & Co. have a new advertisement
on our fourth page that will interest our lady readers.
Chicago Grange will give an entertainment
June 19th, that being the 7th anniversary of its organization.
Mr. Hamil of Lynn, Mass., proprietor of the
night lunch wagon, has contributed $25 for the 4th of July celebration.
Posters announcing that Barnum & Bailey's
great shows will exhibit in Cortland soon are posted inconspicuous places
about town.
The Cascadillas of Ithaca met the Normals on
the fair grounds last Monday afternoon and disposed of them easily. Score 14 to
4.
Ira Short has been appointed yardmaster at
the Lehigh Valley station in this village and Mr. H. D. Phillips has been appointed
baggagemaster to fill the place made vacant by Mr. Short's promotion.
About 125 people attended Washburn's show in
the afternoon last Thursday and the attendance was but a little better in the
evening. Very few people were on the streets in the morning to see the parade. This
is not to be wondered at when it is known that the company did not advertise in
the papers. No one outside of the village knew they would be here, consequently
they did not attend. The show itself was not a bad one and some of the acts
were really meritorious. One might as well attempt to swim up the great falls
of Niagara as to run a show without advertising in the papers.
MUSIC
FESTIVAL.
Press
Notices.
MISS ALMA WEBSTER POWELL.
Alma Webster Powell sang as the Queen of
Night. The lady is
of fine appearance, and has much artistic feeling. Her voice is
of surprising volubility, and her coloraturas are of great beauty.—Berliner
Courier.
To those who see in this role but a
coloratura part with the highest possible notes, the highest a composer ever
wrote for the human voice, Alma Webster Powell gave the utmost satisfaction;
she executed the diamond like glitter of the staccato in the second and third
octave not only pure, but without any apparent effort.—Frankfurter Zeitung.
MISS GERALDINE MORGAN.
The attraction of the evening was Geraldine Morgan,
the young violinist. Her pure tone, fine conception and clear intonation captivated
the audience, and both after the Concerto, as well as the Beethoven Romance,
she was rapturously applauded.—Berlin Vossiche Zeitung.
Geraldine Morgan possesses a faultless technique
and that real, full, violin tone not often found; besides her conception is noble
and earnest.—Berlin Tageblatt.
Miss Geraldine Morgan, the noted violinist, plays
the music of the masters as the masters play it, the old Stradivarius speaking in
human tones under the hands of the young artist.—St. Paul Pioneer Press.
BEETHOVEN TRIO CLUB.
Students of the master composers in Syracuse
have the Beethoven Trio Club to thank for much benefit. Likewise those who only
listen to enjoy cannot too fully appreciate what has been done for the
promotion. Doctor Parker, Conrad L. Becker and Emil Winkler are each entitled
to first rank among musicians and long association together has brought about
that mutual understanding and sympathy between them which does so much for
ensemble work.—Syracuse Herald, Jan.
28, 1896.
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