STORMED BY AMAZONS

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, July 2, 1896.

STORMED BY AMAZONS.

Enraged Women Capture a Stone Quarry.

THE SHERIFF CALLS FOR TROOPS.

Lively Encounters at the Berea and Westview Quarries In Ohio—Several Strikers Wounded, One Mortally—Disorderly Scenes In Cleveland.

   BEREA, O., July 2.—While the strikers were at West View, the women in overwhelming numbers took the quarry here by storm and drove out the workmen with clubs.

   The sheriff was at West View with all but a handful of his deputies, and in consequence the women had full sway.

   When the news reached them that some of the strikers had been injured at West View, the women were beside themselves with rage, and were only kept in check by the large number of citizens that were hastily summoned from the village.

   The strikers are rapidly returning from West View and have been calling in their pickets for the purpose of arming them.

   Sheriff Leek finds that they scatter and slip across lots at such a lively rate that he cannot keep all points guarded with his men.

   The strikers would not allow anyone inside of their line after the fight, so it was not possible to learn how many of their number had been injured. None of the sheriff's party was hurt.

   The strikers now claim that Deputy Sheriff Smith did the first shooting, and in consequence they are more bitter than ever.

   The Stone company is determined to keep its works running, and will insist on the utmost protection. Four companies of the Fifth regiment have been requested to aid the sheriff.

Troops Held In Readiness.

   CLEVELAND, July 2— In response to Sheriff Leek's request for militia, Governor Bushnell responded that the sheriff must use his own judgment and if unable to cope with the strikers himself to call out what militia he wanted in the county.

   Everything is quiet at Berea and West View. The sheriff has 150 deputies under arms, 50 with Winchester rifles. Company D, Ohio National Guard, at Berea is under arms, and Company K of this city has been ordered to stand in readiness to move.

   Four Polish strikers were wounded in the melee at West View. Vincent Maschinski is shot through the lungs and will die. He is 38 years old and has a wife and four children.

   Martin Rockowski was wounded in the chin and Joseph Wawzonski and Anton Potok were slightly wounded in the legs.

   The strikers have sworn out warrants for the arrest of Deputy Sheriff Smith and other deputies, charging them with shooting to kill.

Ohio National Guard escorts police during Brown Hoisting Co. strike in August, 1896.

Disorders In Cleveland.

   CLEVELAND, July 2.—One hundred and twenty-five workmen left the Brown Hoisting company's works under escort of 175 policemen. Strikers and onlookers to the number of 6,000 hooted and jeered them. Squads of strikers went in both directions on St. Clair street and took possession of every car that came along, filling them so full that the workmen could not get on. By force the police succeeded in getting a number of the workmen on cars and sent them home under guard.

   The rest were marched to the Central police station, followed by a howling mob and from there sent home in patrol wagons. Today any crowd that collects will be dispersed.

   One of the nonunion workmen, A. L. Strong, after being put on a car, fired his revolver into the crowd, the bullet grazing the arm of Benjamin Ions, a striker. Strong was arrested and locked up. One striker was arrested for intoxication.

BUCK GANG EXECUTED.

Five Men Hanged at Fort Smith For Murder and Assault.

   FORT SMITH, Ark., July 2.—Rufus Buck, Louis Davis, Lucky Davis, Maomi July and Sam Sampson, comprising what is known as the Buck gang, were executed here, President Cleveland refusing to interfere in the carrying out of the sentence of Judge Parker's court.

   The Buck gang, composed of five members, were convicted of murder and criminal assault Sept. 23, 1895, in Judge Parker's court and sentenced to be hanged on Oct. 31.

   An appeal to the supreme court acted as a stay, but the appeal was in vain, the higher court refusing to interfere.

Daring Feats at Niagara Falls.

   NIAGARA FALLS, July 2.—J. E. Hardy, a high wire artist who hails from Toronto, made a daring trip across the gorge on a three-quarter inch wire rope. The wire was strung just south of the railway suspension bridge and was about 160 feet above the water. Hardy walked and then ran across the wire, occasionally lying down and doing high kicking acts. The  bridge and the two banks were lined by thousands of people.

Chauncey M. Depew.

Depew Sails For Europe.

   NEW YORK, July 2.—Chauncey M. Depew sailed for Europe on the American liner St. Paul. He was accompanied by his son, Chauncey M. Depew, Jr., his niece, Miss Annie Depew Paulding, and his nephew, C. C. Paulding. After seeing the [8-man boat crew] regatta at Henley, Mr. Depew will go to Hamburg for a rest.

   Just before sailing, Mr. Depew, in speaking of the coming campaign, said:

"The Democrats will declare for free silver, and the campaign will be one of sound money and protection against free silver and free trade."

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

He Speaks When It's Time To.

   The brief speech of William McKinley in response to the formal announcement of his nomination made by the committee appointed for that purpose, will remove all doubt, if any had before existed, as to just where he stands on the question of a gold standard for our currency. No one has ever ventured a suggestion that he was unsound on protection—for which McKinleyism has come to be simply another name—but his declaration in favor of a gold standard is no less clear and emphatic than is his reference to the tariff. "The money of the United States," he says, "must not only be current at its full face value at home, but it must be counted at par in any and every commercial centre of the globe."

   Even the New York Sun, which has charged Major McKinley with being a shuffler and a trimmer on the currency question, has to admit that this "means gold dollars or dollars based on the gold standard, the world's standard of value" and declares that the one phrase which we have quoted "is worth a hundred generalities."

   Mr. McKinley was right and wise in not attempting to dictate to the Republican National Convention the kind of platform it should adopt. After the platform was adopted and he was made the nominee, it was time enough for him to say whether it expressed his political belief, and whether he would stand on it. The cordiality, directness, and earnestness with which he endorses the declaration of principles made at St. Louis show how sincerely he believes in them. The Republican party this year is as fortunate in its nominee for president as in the platform upon which it has placed him.

CORTLANDS VS. SCRANTONS.

The Eastern Leaguers Defeat the Home Team by the Score of 17 to 1.

   The large crowd at the fair grounds yesterday afternoon witnessed a good exhibition of ball playing on the part of the visiting team, the Scrantons of the Eastern league who met the home team and vanquished them to the tune of 17 to 1. But the Cortlands could not expect to win from such a team as the Scrantons and patrons of the game should not expect them to.

   Yesterday seemed to be an off day with the Cortlands and their playing was decidedly loose. On the other hand the Scrantons did good team work and showed that they understood the practical side of the game from A to Z.

   The Cortlands were able to hit the ball but were not able to hit safely when hits were most needed. Seven hits in all were made off Johnson and Corbett, three of which are credited to Ketchum and two to Haulihan. Lovelock caught a good game and made the score for the Cortlands.

   The new grandstand is much appreciated and is liberally patronized at every game. Since the diamond was put in shape it is one of the best in Central New York. The following is a summary of the game:

AT WORK IN THE SOUTH LAND.

Mr. A. L. DeMond Among the Colored People in Georgia.

   Mr. H. M. Kellogg has recently received a letter from Mr. A. L. DeMond, the colored graduate of the Normal class of '89, which gives a brief outline of his work among the colored people in Georgia and also contains an extract from a sermon on "The Bible and the Boys in Blue" recently preached by Mr. DeMond, which has been highly spoken of by a number of Northern people who heard it and which we should be glad to publish if space permitted.

   Mr. DeMond is now located at Mcintosh, Ga., about thirty miles from Savannah. He is connected with the American Missionary association which has its headquarters in New York. Last year he built a new church at Lowell, N. C., and afterward was promoted to his present charge at a better salary. He has now the finest colored church in the county. The Dorchester academy located on same grounds has 425 pupils and ten teachers with an industrial hall where young men are taught the trades, etc. The many Cortland friends of Mr. DeMond will be interested in the success of Mr. DeMond's work among his people in this new field.

SUICIDE NEAR SCOTT.

John Williamson Found Dead in the Woods Near His Home.

   Word was received this morning at Homer that John Williamson, a farmer who lived about two miles east of Scott, had committed suicide by hanging. His son William who came here after Coroner Bradford said that his father appeared all right at breakfast time. He went into the woods to do some work and was found later dead, his feet [not] touching the ground, so that death was due to strangulation. Nothing farther has been learned as to the motive of the deed.

BREVITIES.

Mary had a little lamb,

But both have long been dead.

If Mary were alive to-day,

She'd want a wheel instead.—Somerville Journal.

   —Freeville reports a slight frost Tuesday morning.

   —Harvard university conferred the degree of Master of Arts upon Booker T. Washington of Tuskagee last week.

   —New advertisements to-day are—Kellogg & Curtis, great July clearing sale, page 6; Warren, Tanner & Co., rugs and embroideries, page 5.

   —The Y. P. C. U. of the Universalist church will serve a 15 cent lunch at the church July Fourth, all day. Ice cream will be served during the day. Patronage invited.

   —Ice cream and lunches will be served on the north side of the First M. E. church on July Fourth by the woman's Christian Temperance Union. A liberal patronage will be appreciated.  

   —Friends of Miss Georgiana Baucus will be pleased to learn that she expects to arrive in New York Saturday, July 4 on the City of New York from five years' missionary work in Japan.—Ithaca Journal.

   —The ladies of the Homer-ave. M. E. church are to serve a chicken dinner in the Churchill block No. 9 North Main-st., July 4. All are invited to give them a call. Only 25 cents will be charged for a full dinner. There will also be a lunch counter, ice cream and lemonade.

   —Mrs. Margaret Monahan died at the residence of her grandson Mr. Maurice Sweeney, 15 Doubleday-st. at 9 o'clock this morning, aged 93. The deceased leaves three children, Mrs. James Sweeney of Scott, Mrs. John Splean of Clyde and Mr. John Harrington of Cortland. Funeral at the house Saturday morning at 9 o'clock and at St. Mary's church at 9:30 o'clock.

   —L. D. Carns of the Fountain House and Magnetic Springs House, Slaterville Springs, is to have charge of the new hotel [The Kremlin] in Cortland being built on the site of the old Central House on Court-st. by the Wickwire brothers. No more competent man could be found to take charge of the house, as Mr. Carns has made an enviable reputation as a hotel man, having for many years run the above two summer hotels in a very successful manner, and which he will still continue to run. The hotel will be open about October first.—Dryden Herald.