BIG
FIRECRACKERS.
Inflicted
Injury Upon the Old Boys as Well as the Younger Ones.
Through an oversight yesterday The STANDARD
failed to mention three Fourth of July accidents caused by firecrackers, in
which the old boys seemed to fare worse than the smaller ones usually do.
On Friday evening the chief of the fire
department, A. G. Bosworth, was firing dynamite crackers in front of Fireman's hall.
He had a giant cracker in his right hand and had attempted to light it, but did
not think the fuse ignited. Suddenly it exploded burning and lacerating his
hand very badly. His face was also burned and torn, and his right ear was badly
injured. He didn't fire any more crackers that night, but with good pluck
marched at the head of the fire department in the parade Saturday.
Upon the same evening ex-chief of the fire
department, John H. Phelps, was sitting upon the steps leading up to the
entrance of the surrogate's office when unbeknown to him some one in the crowd
placed one of those dynamite crackers on the step below the one on which he was
sitting and next the left foot. It went off with a bang tearing the bottom of
Mr.Phelps' trousers into shreds and injuring his foot quite badly.
A ten year old son of George Edwards of
Crandall-st. was on Saturday struck in the back of the head by a large
firecracker thrown by some one which exploded just as it touched his head. A
bad wound was made in his scalp and the wound bled profusely, but no serious
damage was done.
Flag For
the John Brown Farm.
ALBANY, July 7.—Excise Commissioner Lyman
has presented to the fisheries, game and forest commission, the custodian of
the John Brown farm in Essex county, a large American flag to be placed on the
farm. This historical place was presented to the state by the late Kate Field.
The commission is making extensive arrangements for a flag raising day, which
will be held in the near future.
Anti-Suffragists
on Hand.
CHICAGO, July 7.—Mrs. W. Winslow Crannell of
Albany is at one of the hotels representing the Anti-Woman Suffrage League. She
says:
"I am here to combat before the [Democratic]
committee on resolutions any attempt on the part of the Woman Suffragists to
obtain a suffrage plank in the platform. 1 shall not appear and shall not make
any argument unless the other side appears, for I am assured that nothing of
that sort is contemplated in the platform at present."
So far none of the Women Suffragists have
appeared, although it is said that Mrs. Lillie Devereaux Blake will be here and that a clash similar to that at St. Louis will occur.
An
Outing at Crooked Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Gladding, Mr. and Mrs. B.
I. Card and Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Frisbee of 78 Clinton-ave., [Cortland],
returned Monday afternoon from Crooked lake where they have been camping out
for some days past. Miss Cora E. Lyons of Walton and Editor Charles B.Crombie
of Norwich were their guests. Probably the largest pickerel ever caught at that
charming lake was landed by Mr. Frisbee, and the greatest number in the
shortest time by Mr. Card, while the rest made the best records with the
mosquitoes.
LOCAL
PERSONAL.
HON. DANIEL S. LAMONT has received from the
paymaster of the army a check for the amount which he advanced for the pay of
army officers some time ago, when the funds of Uncle Sam ran dry. The secretary
[of war] received the precise sum that he had furnished, so that he lost any interest
it might have earned; but it was a fine investment for him all the same.—New
York Sun.
MASTER NED BUTLER, who was struck in the
face by a stray bullet on the morning of the Fourth, is not quite so
comfortable to-day. His temperature is higher and he is more restless. This is not
considered a dangerous symptom, but is what is to be expected from the nature
of the case.
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| Cortland Park. |
Party at
the Park.
Mrs. Hugh Duffey entertained several friends
at the park last evening in honor of her friend Mrs. M. M. Maybury of Denver,
Colo. The evening was very pleasantly spent in dancing in the new pavilion,
after which very nice refreshments were served.
The party consisted of Mr. and Mr. Hugh
Duffey, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Newton, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Nourse, Mr. and Mrs. C.
F. Brown, Mr. and
Mrs. Albee
of Minneapolis, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Peck, Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Maycumber, Mrs.
C. E. Selover, Mrs. M. M. Maybury, Mr. C. F. Straat and Mr. F. P. Mooney.
Mr.
Reeves is Dead.
Mr. Stephen D. Reeves of North Franklin-st.,
died this morning at 4 o'clock of heart disease at the age of 85 years.
He is the father of Ray Reeves and of Mrs. Frank Youmans. This is the old
gentleman who it will be remembered was almost burned before being carried from
the house of his son when it caught fire one Sunday noon a few weeks ago.
The funeral will be held to-morrow afternoon
at 4 o'clock. Burial Thursday at Wilseyville.
Died In
New Hampshire.
Mrs. Melissa J. Mills, formerly of Cortland,
died at Rye, N. H., July 4, 1896. Mrs. Mills
was the daughter of Jonathon T. and Elizabeth A. Williams of Cortland, who are
both dead. She married the Rev. A. W. Mills, who was a Methodist minister in
New England, and who has preached several times in the Methodist church here,
also in the Baptist church. Three years ago, Mr. Mills was called to a large
church in Brooklyn, N. Y., where his wife's health failed, and he accepted a
call to a church in Rye, N. H., thinking the change of climate would benefit
her; but she only lived one month, after reaching her new home.
BREVITIES.
—A noticeable sign in one of Cortland's drug
stores reads, "Postage stamps at cost."
—Regular meeting of the Y. M. C. A. membership
committee to-night at 8 o'clock.
—Cortland chapter No. 194, R. A. M., will
confer the mark degree at their meeting to-morrow evening.
—Hon. O. U. Kellogg has sold his [trotting] horse
Benedicta to J. H. Cooper of Scranton, Pa. Consideration $1,000.
—The roll of the McKinley & Hobart
marching club is at the hardware store of H. M. Kellogg, where all who wish to join
are requested to call and join.
—The first rehearsal for "The Tramp's
Daughter," the play which is to be given soon by Edward B. Kelly and a
company of local amateurs will occur to-night.
—A free-for-all
fight took place on Pomeroy-st. last night resulting over a cow straying into a
neighbor's lot. Blood was spilled, but before the arrival of the police on the
scene all was quiet and no arrests were made.
—On the account of the great demand for The
STANDARD containing the notice of the paying of the debt of the Congregational
church, we have, to-day, had extra copies printed and they can be obtained at
this office.
—The board of trustees held a meeting last
night and besides transacting routine business adopted a form in which bids for
paving must be handed in. These blanks can be secured from Village Clerk Hatch.
—The footrace at the fair grounds Saturday between
E. S. Matthewson of Cortland
and Miller of Ithaca was easily won by the former. No official time was taken
as Matthewson was so much the faster man and had everything to himself.
—The boarders at Mrs. Griffith's on Court-st.
yesterday procured one of the hand organs that was being played about town and
with Mr. R. H. Miller at the crank serenaded several of the neighbors. It is
reported that Mr. Miller proved a very efficient organ grinder.
—An impression seems to prevail in certain
quarters that The STANDARD'S request for all riders of wheels to leave their
names and the makes of their wheels at this office for publication is a request
in the interest of some bicycle company and is meant to advertise some
particular parties. Such is not the case. It is merely an attempt to show how
many wheels there are in Cortland and who are the riders, and what wheels are
owned, and is intended solely as a matter of news. Already a very large number
of wheels are recorded, but by no means all the wheals in town. We would like
them all and then we would like to publish them. Everybody will look over the
list with interest. If you ride a wheel, please let us add your name to the
list. You will find yourself in excellent company.
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