TEAM STOLEN AND MCKINLEY SPEAKS

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, June 19, 1896.

TEAM STOLEN.

A Stranger Hires a Rig from Liveryman Young and Skips the Country.

   Last Sunday evening a stranger called at the livery of Mr. T. H. Young in the Cortland House barn and asked for a team to drive to East Homer. He said he was the advance agent of Sautelle's circus and that when near the last named place his wagon broke down and he wanted a team to drive there and bring his men, paper and paste pails to Cortland, as he was to bill the town the day following. Mr. Young hitched a pair of black mares to a platform wagon and the man drove east on Clinton-ave. at 9:15. About 11 o'clock his brother, Mr. J. T. Young, who had been at Truxton, returned and he was asked if he saw anything of the black mares or the broken down circus rig. He replied that he had not.

   Mr. T. H. Young drove to East Homer after 12 o'clock, but could find no trace of either his own team or the alleged circus outfit. Sheriff Hilsinger was immediately notified and the telephone and telegraph lines were kept busy until late the next day. Circulars giving a description of the team and the man were sent in all directions by mail.

   Fred Brown, driver of the Pitcher stage, told the officers that he met the rig, with four men in the wagon, just this side of Pitcher at 6 o'clock Monday morning and a message from So. Otselic told the sheriff that the team passed through that village at 7 o'clock headed towards Norwich.

   At 1:30 in the afternoon a message from Norwich informed the sheriff that the parties stopped there for dinner. Norwich officers started after them and overhauled them at New Berlin at 5 o'clock. The driver who hired the team was the only man captured as the other three had made themselves scarce before the officers' arrival. Sheriff Hilsinger and Mr. T. H. Young started for Norwich with a team before they heard of the capture.

   The man arrested turned out to be Prof. Fred Cook of Norwich, who had been travelling through some of the western towns in Chenango county with a show troupe consisting of himself, Mary Hubbard, Burt Cornell and Wm. L. Woodworth. When the company arrived in Cuyler last Saturday Cook sold the horse, which he had hired of an Italian in Norwich, for $10 and the troupe started for Cortland where they arrived on Sunday evening.

   The other members of the party were arrested later and taken to Norwich.

Cook was retained in Norwich to answer to the charge of stealing the Italian's horse and Cornell, Woodworth and Miss Hubbard were brought back to Cortland to answer to the charge of stealing Youngs' horses. They claim they did not know Cook had stolen the rig.

   Before going to Young's livery Sunday night, the man had applied to M. K. Kingman, C. B. Peck, Lee Crofoot, J. J. Gillett and J. L. Watrous for a team telling substantially the same story he told Young.

FISH AND GAME LAWS.

CHANGES MADE BY THE LAST LEGISLATURE.

Many Important Amendments, But More Proposed Amendments Killed

—Appropriations of the Year.

   The last Legislature adopted a number of changes in the game laws of New York,  the most important of which were the following:

   Jacking deer allowed only September 1-September 15, and hounding October 1-15, in the counties of St. Lawrence, Delaware, Greene, Ulster or Sullivan, except in the towns of Highland, Cumberland, Tusten, Cochecton and Bethel and on Long Island. In the latter locality, all kinds of deer hunting is prohibited except on Wednesdays in November.

   Squirrels, hares and rabbits may be hunted from October 15 to February 15, both inclusive: Long Island is excepted.

   The counties of Wayne, Onondaga and Oswego were exempted from the prohibition of ferrets in hunting hares and rabbits.

   Eel weirs, of which the laths are not less than one inch apart, may be maintained in any waters not inhabited by trout, lake trout, salmon trout or landlocked salmon, except in the Chemung river.

   Private ponds, reservoirs or waters of the state may be drained so as to take therefrom carp, pickerel or ether deleterious fish. By consent of the commissioners of fisheries, the owner of a private pond may take fish from a stream of water running through his premises solely for the purpose of being placed in his pond.

   Frost fish, white fish or Otsego bass, lake trout, perch, eels and pickerel may be taken from Otsego lake by rod and reel or by hook and line held in hand from January 1 to October 31, both inclusive.

   Silver lake was exempted from the prohibition against fishing through the ice for trout, salmon trout or land locked salmon in the close season.

   A law was passed establishing a state reservation on or along the St. Lawrence river in this state, with a view to the formation of an international park on the St. Lawrence, comprising the whole river. The reservation is to be made under the control of the commissioners of fisheries. In accordance with this law, the waters of the river adjacent to the new park were exempted from the sections of the game code relating to close season for black bass, etc., to size of black bass to be taken, and to close season for muscalonge; and special provisions were enacted for those waters including the appointment of a protector.

   The Legislature passed, but the governor refused to sign these bills. For the protection of fur bearing animals; relating to the hounding of deer in the towns of Dresden and Putnam, Washington county; relative to eel weirs in the Chemung river; making the close season for web footed wild fowl from March 1 to September 1; giving special privileges to owners of private ponds, relative to fishing through the ice in certain lakes: allowing fishing other than by angling in the waters of Lake Erie in Chautauqua county.

   These appropriations were made: Fishway in Susquehanna river, Binghamton, $3,000; water rights, Caledonia hatchery, $5,000; Pleasant Valley hatchery, $245; extermination of bill fish in Chautauqua and Black lakes, $1,500, maintenance of the several hatcheries, $36,666.

FROM EVERYWHERE.

   The crowning of the Czar will cost the Russian people $40,000,000.

   A Canisteo man traded 100 bushels of potatoes for a four weeks old pig.

   The electric cars from Seneca Falls to Cayuga Lake Park carried 6,000 passengers on Memorial Day.

   A grasshopper plague is feared in Chautauqua county.

   It is reported that gold ore yielding $400 to the ton is being produced in Nacoochee county, Georgia.

   A Boston jury gave a man a verdict against a street railway for $35,000, damage for the loss of a leg.

   Issac Hardacre, a well known farmer of Borodino, dropped dead in Bench & Son's hardware store at Skaneateles on June 5th.

   Lord Salisbury is 66 years of age. He spent fifteen years in the House of Commons and has been twenty-four years in the House of Lords.

   British capitalists, among whom are said to be the Rothschilds, are said to own a controlling interest in the Anaconda copper mines in Montana.

   A rubber syringe filled with ammonia is now sold to bicyclers to protect them from vicious dogs who puncture their tires with their teeth.

   Through the efforts of the citizens of Canandaigua six hundred fresh air children will be taken there and to the surrounding country this summer.

   The hunting of black and gray squirrels, hares, and rabbits, is prohibited by the amended game laws except between October 15th and February 15th.

   Evidence shows that the bicycle has injured many kinds of trade by diverting popular funds to the purchase of wheels and the accompaniments of wheels.

   The fifty sixth annual state fair will be held at Syracuse, August 31 to September 5. Twenty-five thousand dollars will be given in premiums. Entries close August 1, 1896.

   The late Baron Hirsch received an average of 400 begging letters a day and never read them, though he gave away in a single year as much as $15,000,000.

   A new apple tree pest has made its appearance in the towns of Rose and Huron. It is known as the "Albion worm" from the section where it was first observed. At birth it is green, changing to red in the second stage. It bores through the base of the bud, eats off the stem and the incipient apple falls lifeless to the ground. The number of this pest is so incredibly great that it will pass over and destroy the fruitage of a large orchard in a day or two, and nothing has so far been known to check them except copious spraying with paris green [arsenic].

   An enterprising evangelist holding meetings in Gallipolis, Ohio, has a skyrocket shot off every time a convert is made during a revival. As a result, sinners are becoming scarce and sky rockets sell at a premium in that Ohio town.

William McKinley.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.

McKinley Speaks.

(St. Louis Dispatch to the Sun.)

   The Hon. William McKinley has been heard from at last. He has opened his mouth. Mr. Hanna is away from Canton, and Mr. McKinley has said something. It happened in this way: Mr. Hanna directed the telegraph people to put in a direct wire between his headquarters in the Southern Hotel and Mr. McKinley's home in Canton.

   The wire was ready for work just after breakfast time this morning. Mr. Hanna had gone down stairs to the barroom to get his usual glass of spring water, when a messenger ran down and said that the telegraph operator in Mr. Hanna's headquarters had received the signal from Canton that Mr. McKinley wanted to say something. With apprehension in his heart Mr. Hanna climbed aboard the already overcrowded elevator and was lifted to his apartments. He had not time to direct the telegraph operator to wire back to Canton that Mr. McKinley under no circumstances was to send any kind of a message, for the reason that the operator in Mr. McKinley s home at Canton had already sent Mr. McKinley's first utterance of his nomination campaign over the wire.

   There it was in plain ink as transcribed by the operator in Hanna's headquarters. The greatest Republican boss that the party has ever had picked up the message as if it were a rattlesnake about to sink its deadly fangs into months of Hanna's hard work. Mr. Hanna adjusted his eyeglasses tremulously. Then he read the message, which in substance said:

   "Please do not have me nominated on Friday. Remember this. Friday is a terribly unlucky day. Blaine was nominated on Friday. Harrison was nominated the last time on Friday. Please do not have me nominated on a Friday."

   This was the first utterance Mr. McKinley since last winter. It was startling in its nature. It conveyed a real utterance on the part of Mr. McKinley, and Mr. Hanna was aghast. The Republicans who heard of Mr. McKinley's request said that it was really a statesmanlike utterance. It portrayed the depth of political learning which Mr. McKinley has acquired in the twenty years of his public life. It conveyed in no uncertain sound that Mr. McKinley has a backbone of his own. He does not wish to be nominated on a Friday, and he has the courage to wire his wishes to Mr. Hanna. But the Hanna was 400 miles away.

   Mr. Hanna told his friends that he would do his utmost to regard Mr. McKinley's wishes in the matter. He has certainly acted as if he had already understood Mr. McKinley's wishes, because he has hustled along the work of the national committee, which has fired out anti-McKinley delegates with no more compunction than if they were a lot of angle worms.

HERE AND THERE.

   Burgess, the clothier, has a new advertisement on our last page.

   Messrs. Martin & Call are building a new office near their coal dump on Elm-st.

   Only a few people attended the McKinley meeting to be held in John L. Lewis lodge rooms last Friday evening.

   Mr. A. M. Schermerhorn of this place won the $50 silver cup at the shoot held in Buffalo last week. He killed forty-eight birds of a possible fifty.

   Regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. on Saturday, June 20, at 3 P. M. Devotionals led by Mrs. Linderman, followed by business meeting and reports of the county convention.

   The board of trustees left Tuesday evening on a tour of inspection and will visit Buffalo, Jamestown, Towanda, Elmira and other cities, expecting to get back this morning. Their object is to become informed on the subject of street paving.

   Orson A. Kinney died at his home in McGrawville Wednesday evening. He was one of the oldest Odd Fellows in the county and a past grand master of McGrawville lodge, No. 320, I. O. O. F., which will have charge of the funeral services at McGrawville at 2 o'clock to-day. Burial in Cortland Rural cemetery.

   C. J. Gridot, an amatuer cyclist of Harrisburgh, Pa., arrived in town last Monday evening en route to San Francisco on his wheel. If he rides the entire distance without a cent in his pocket and without begging assistance in forty-three days he gets $250. He left for Syracuse Tuesday morning and expected to dine in Rochester. He carries a letter from a newspaper man in every town where he stops to a newspaper man at the next stopping place.

   The bicycle parade Tuesday evening was the means of bringing about 450 wheels into line. The route through town was lined with such a crowd of spectators as is seldom seen and many of them were leaning on wheels, showing that if all wheelmen had joined the parade, it would have been much larger. The voluntary concert by the City band was thoroughly appreciated.

   The Cortland base ball team will play their opening game of the season on the fair grounds this afternoon with the Syracuse Stars. The game will be called at 3:30 o'clock. Manager Place has signed T. J. Donovan of West Troy, pitcher; Messitt of the same place for catcher; Houlihan of South Troy is on trial for third base. Other positions on the team are: Place, lb; House, 2b; Welch, ss; Flood, rf; Ketchum, cf; Smith or Quick, lf. It is believed that the new team will be a strong one. A new grand stand has been erected near the diamond.

MARATHON, N. Y.

   N. L. Miller of Cortland was in town Saturday.

   John Courtney Jr., of Cortland, was in town last Friday.

   Mrs. W. C. Smith of Richford is the guest of her son, Dr. R. L. Smith.

   Work is progressing rapidly on B. E. Willson's new house on Academy-st.

   Miss Mary B. Adams has returned from Aspen, Col., where she has been teaching.

   Editor Adams of the Independent, spent the Sabbath with Dr. M. B. Aldrich in Binghamton.

   A very pleasant party was given last Friday evening at Library Hall by the Iroquois club.

   Mrs. Frank Harris of Binghamton has been visiting her mother and other friends in this vicinity.

   Mrs. Geo. W. Buckland of Buffalo is spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Johnson.

   A meeting was held in Corporation Hall on Wednesday evening to discuss the question of organizing an Athletic Association.

   Mrs. F. K. McFall and little son of Corning, are the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Lyman. Mr. McFall spent the Sabbath here.

   Mrs. W. R. Pollard is improving her house on Tannery st. by the addition of a new kitchen and woodshed. F. E. Nichols is doing the work.

   Several of our residents have been improving their places by having new cement walks put down. Mr. Hotchkiss of Cortland does the work.

   Mrs. Anna Baum Beckwith of Brooklyn is the guest of her mother at Killawog. Miss Louise Atwood of New Jersey is also with her parents at the same place.

   On Sunday morning something about the Presbyterian church bell gave out, rendering it impossible for it to be rung. Luckily, however, the bell did not fall or break.

   An entertainment will be given at the Presbyterian church on Friday evening of this week by Miss Winifred A. Smith,  teacher of Elocution and Physical Culture at Marion. Ala., Female Seminary. Mrs. Anna Baum Beckwith will assist in the music.

   John M. Robertson was one day last week the victim of a most distressing accident which resulted in the loss of his left eye. Mr. Robertson, who is a mason, had just finished "pointing" the cellar of J. O. Seamans' new residence on Front-st. and was breaking up a large stone which was to be removed from the cellar, when a piece of the stone flew, striking him in the eye with sufficient force to cut the eyelid badly, and also the eye to such an extent that it was impossible to save it. The eye was removed at the Cortland hospital last Friday by doctors Higgins and Reese. Mr. Robertson returned home Saturday and is reported as quite comfortable and doing nicely. He is a respected, upright citizen and has the sincere sympathy of the entire community in his affliction.

VIRGIL, N. Y.

   In the M. E. church Friday evening, June 19, a strawberry social.

   Mr. Nelson Watrous and family of Homer spent the Sabbath with friends and attended church.

   Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Price visited their daughter, Mrs. Charles Jennings in Harford last week.

   Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ladley were in Richford last Thursday to attend the funeral of Mr. Ladley's father.

   Mr. and Mrs. Wildman of Cincinnatus have been spending a few days with their daughter Mrs. Eugene Brown.

   Mr. Will Roosher and his aunt, Neil Moore of Harford, visited at the home of their uncle, Wait Lincoln, last week.

   Mrs. N. A. Gardner was in Blodgett Mills a part of last week caring for her daughter Mrs. R. D. Shoals, who was sick.

   Mr. Myron Ballou and wife, Mrs. Alice P. Dann, Mrs. A. M. Mott, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Yager, Mrs. J. C. Seaman and Mrs. Mary Franklin attended the W. C. T. U. convention in Freetown.

   Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Barry returned last week from a visit with her aged mother, Mrs. Lawton, at Lincklaen and on their way visited old friends in Cincinnatus and their daughter in Freetown

   Mr. H. P. Hollister and wife and son Floyd of Cortland visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Seaman's recently and a part of the day was spent in sight-seeing at the rocks and Hannah's stump near East Virgil.

   Mrs. Francis W. Graham of Lockport, N. Y., state corresponding secretary of the W. C. T. U., gave song service Friday evening. It was well attended considering the other attractions of the evening, and all were delighted with her singing. Anna Barnes and Oliver Seaman also read selections.

   The M. E. church was well filled Sunday morning, June 14. The following were baptized: Mrs. Alice Hollenbeck, Mrs. Nettie Ball, Stella Ball, Mabel Eva Gee, Glenn Edward Cottrell and V. O. Southwick and wife. Lee Southwick and wife transferred their memberships from Homer to Virgil M. E. church. Rev. Dr. Franklin preached from the words found in Luke 1-66—"What manner of child shall this be?" An attentive congregation listened to the discourse which must have been beneficial to all who have children. The Sunday evening exercises of the Sabbath school were very interesting and much credit is due the committees and Supt. Orrie Post, and also the children in preparing for it. The little ones did exceedingly well.