RIOTING IN CLEVELAND AGAIN

Ohio National Guard escorting Cleveland policemen during Brown Hoisting Co. strike.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, August 15, 1896.

RIOTING IN CLEVELAND.

Brown Company Strike Disorders—Four Seriously Injured.

   CLEVELAND, Aug. 15.—Three men wore shot and one badly hurt in a conflict which occurred between a party of the Brown company strikers and several nonunion men who were going home from the works. Two of the wounded men are nonunionists, the third is a striker, and the fourth a spectator. The names of the injured are:

   J. W. Caldwell, nonunion, shot in the thigh and struck on the head with a billy.

   George Plumb, nonunion, shot through the abdomen; will probably recover.

   Thomas Evans, a striker, shot in the back; badly hurt and may die.

   William Lawrie, a bystander, struck in the face with a telegraph insulator; badly hurt.

   The trouble occurred nearly two miles from the works at the corner of Wade Park and East Madison avenue. A number of the nonunionists live in that vicinity. Eight or 10 of them were going home from the works together.

   Just as they turned the corner a crowd of strikers, who had been in hiding behind a saloon, attacked them. Stones were hurled and George Plumb, one or the nonunionists, pulled a revolver and fired. Plumb was then shot, as he claims, by Henry Snell, a striker.

   The firing became general, at least 20 shots being exchanged. The fight lasted but a few minutes and as soon as it was over the strikers disappeared.

   The police had not anticipated any trouble in that quarter and it was some time before they had arrived on the scene and began an investigation.

   Ambulances took the injured men to hospitals or their homes and the search for the men who did the shooting was begun.

Democratic Split at Spencerport.

   ROCHESTER, Aug. 15.—The Fourth district Democratic convention at Spencerport resulted in a split between the "Silk Stockings'' and "Old Crowd," each faction electing delegates to the state convention. Each side adopted resolutions commending the Chicago platform and favoring the candidacy of Bryan and Sewall. The "Silk Stockings" also adopted a resolution calling for the removal of W. F. Sheehan as national committeeman.

William Jennings Bryan.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

The Bryan Scare Past.

   The Bryan scare is past and gone. The New York speech which the Boy

Orator's friends expected would stampede the city, as his "crown of thorns and cross of gold" effort stampeded the Chicago convention, has turned out a dreary string of commonplaces and platitudes, of rehashed and long since exploded arguments, read from manuscript to a disgusted and rapidly disappearing audience. The orator and his managers are disheartened and demoralized at the fizzle which he has made, as well as at the beggarly attendance and lack of all enthusiasm at the receptions given by Bryan and Sewall and their wives; the business men of New York have seen and heard the bugaboo, found him harmless and are taking courage; stocks have gone up since the speech, as they went down at the announcement that its author was to carry the silver war into the heart of the gold bug country; Bryan himself has been made to give up his intended speaking tour to Maine, and sent to a quiet place to rest; and the country is breathing easier.

   The great speech which was to convert the nation to the free silver gospel, has simply demonstrated, as the New York Sun puts it, the following facts:

   That there is nothing in the free silver agitation.

   That it is all a mere bubble.

   That it will burst and go to pieces long before November.

   Bryan himself has pricked it, and now we have only to wait a little to see it collapse for good and all.

   Business is safe. The nation's honor is secure from stain. There will be no 53-cent dollars. There will be no repudiation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Don't Talk of the Devil to Children.

   Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes that all the happiness of her childish years was crippled and paralyzed through the fear of the devil. She was told that he was ever ready to pounce upon her and carry her off to a place where he would pitch her into the fire. She says she was taught to believe he was always standing immediately behind her at every moment of her existence. Her days were full of fear, her nights of horror and torment, because of this dreadful superstition. Her health suffered from it and her normal intellectual, physical and moral development were rendered impossible. It was not till she was 17 years old and read some books which set her mind free that she finally shook off this nightmare of her childhood.

   Those who threaten children with the devil for the purpose of scaring them into obedience are doing the worst that could possibly be done. Every word of this kind is intensified tenfold by the vivid childish imagination, so that the seeds of future nervous diseases and mental disorders arc actually and by no means infrequently sown.

   A sort of epidemic of seeing the devil lately spread through the public schools of one portion of a large American city and serious consequences resulted. A panic occurred in one school, in which the life was almost crushed out of some of the children and others were thrown into spasms and fainting fits. It all came from the big yarns of a little girl who had been scared nearly to death by stories of the devil in her own home. She repeated the tales to her little schoolmates till they in turn began to see hoofed and horned demons on every housetop and in the darkness of every night.

   Unless you are animated by an earnest desire to drive your children into insanity and invalidism, don't talk to them about the devil.

NEW ATTRACTIONS.

The Largest and Greatest Exhibition Ever Organized.

   Many new features and attractions, having been introduced into Barnum & Bailey's great show this season, no one could associate or liken it to that of any other, or of any previous year. Three stages, one more than last season, three rings, and a racing track are required to show the one hundred acts. There are the greatest champion aerialists ever seen, the best equestrians in the world, and a myriad of special features.

   Fifty trained horses perform in one ring at onetime; twenty-four elephants execute marvelous tricks in three rings at one time, and troupes of specialists occupy the three stages with concurrent acts.

   A lady is hurled from a crossbow 80 feet into the air; the new woman on horseback in bifurcated skirts, the ethnic entertainment of illustrated India, the lady clowns and ringmasters are all new features.

   The wonderful gorilla, Johanna, is a whole show and is undoubtedly the greatest living attraction ever presented before the American public.

   There are three circus companies in three rings, three stages and a racing track. Then there are the two menageries, in one of which is located a veritable midway, lined with the huts, weapons, canoes, implements, tools, and other material belonging to the strange people who perform in Oriental India. Twelve champion male and female bareback riders are seen in the rings, with any number of aerialists, and altogether it is the finest and grandest show ever organized.

   A new street parade has also been arranged for this season, containing representations of all the crowned heads of the world, with the music and military uniforms of all nations, a horseless carriage, and the whole, entire and undivided, will be here [Cortland, N. Y.] on Saturday, Sept 5.

From the North Woods.

   M. C. Eastman returned last night from a six weeks' outing in the North Woods. Mr. and Mrs. Eastman spent considerable time traveling through the woods with guides. In some places they were obliged to go through by compass and cut trails as they penetrated parts of the woods not usually traveled.

   Mrs. Eastman will remain in the woods a few days before she returns to her duties in the Cortland Normal school.

   Mr. Eastman reports finding plenty of deer. During his trip be came across many evidences of deer having been killed out of season. It is Mr. Eastman's opinion that the guides of the Adirondacks kill deer for their own use at all seasons of the year.—Binghamton Republican, Saturday.

Wonders in Fruit and Vegetables.

   Mr. W. B. Knapp has shown us a shoot cut from a black raspberry bush set out this spring which now stands about four feet high and which single shoot now has upon it twenty-five ripe berries of remarkably large size and two green ones. Nineteen of the berries are found in a single cluster. Mr. Knapp informs us that there were three more on this shoot, but the birds ate them. It is unusual for a black raspberry bush to bear the first year.

   Mr. A. P. Rowley has shown us a single stalk of Little Gem peas which has upon it twenty-three pods, all growing in a cluster. He is going to save the peas for seed and determine whether others will grow in this fashion or whether this single bush is a freak.

F. A. Bickford to be Chief.

   Next week Chief of the [Cortland] Fire Department A. G. Bosworth, First Assistant L. A. Arnold, and Second Assistant George French will all attend the state fireman's convention at Lockport. All of the former chiefs of recent years are also to be in attendance, and so Chief Bosworth has delegated his authority to F. A. Bickford who will be in command of the department in case of a fire.

BREVITIES.

   —New advertisements to-day are—A. Mahan, An Elephant, etc. page 7.

   —The colored people of Cortland are arranging for a grand picnic at Floral Trout park Aug. 20. There will be dancing in the afternoon.

   —The Auburns, who are to-day playing the Cortlands at the fair grounds, on Thursday defeated the Cuban Giants at Auburn by a score of 5 to 2.

   —The sheriff's sale of the H. M. Whitney company's stock on the executions issued Thursday is advertised to take place Aug. 22 at 10 o'clock A. M.

   —The body of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newell Cobb of Albany was brought to Cortland this afternoon on the Lehigh Valley at 1:37 and interred in the Cortland Rural Cemetery.

   —The "Ponies" of the Second ward were beaten for the second time at baseball yesterday by the Gashouse team by the score of 16 to 17. The two teams will meet again Wednesday at 9:30 A. M. and a spirited contest is looked for.

   —Plaintiff not appearing before Justice Dowd yesterday in the case of The People against Hiram Davis of Homer, charged with larceny in taking a horse from Lewis Rood of Homer, the complaint was dismissed and the prisoner discharged.

   —At a meeting of the G. A. R. last night Messrs. Mark Brownell, J. R. Birdlebough and J. W. Strowbridge were appointed committee to confer with the railroad authorities in regard to running an excursion to Binghamton Aug. 24, providing the proper arrangements can be made.

   —Cyrus Terpening of 10 Halbert-st. swallowed some toothache liniment Wednesday night instead of some medicine, as he supposed. The liniment contained laudanum, but he took so much that sickness was caused at once so that he vomited the liquid from his stomach, which probably saved his life or at least serious trouble.

Mrs. Webb's Private School.

   Mrs. Arthur Webb returned from Chautauqua last evening where she has been attending the summer school. She took full courses in Theory and Practice of Kindergarten Teaching, Primary methods and nature study with partial attendance on other courses which will prove very useful to her in conducting her private school which will open about Sept. 7.

   Only a few vacancies are now left, several applications having been made during Mrs. Webb's absence. Scholars must be entered for the entire year.

 

REPUBLICAN ATTACKS ON THE U. S. SUPREME COURT

Dred Scott and wife Harriet, lower illustrations.

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, August 14, 1896.

REPUBLICAN ATTACKS ON THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT.

(From the Albany Argus.)

   Republican criticisms of those portions of the [Democratic] Chicago platform censuring the United States Supreme Court for its action on the income-tax matter are singularly audacious when it is recalled that the Republican party was born in defiance of the Supreme Court. Because of the Dred Scott decision, a decision which, by the by, was as a matter of law and constitutional interpretation, unquestionably sound and unimpeachable, and because they recognized that the decision was unassailable from a legal point of view, able Republican agitators of the radical school, like William Lloyd Garrison, purposely shifted their point of attack to the general onslaught on the terms of union as embodied in the Constitution.

   There can be little doubt that the Albany platform of February 2, 1859, characterizing the Union as "a covenant with Death which ought to be annulled and an agreement with Hell which a just God cannot permit to stand," was deliberately intended to "fire the Southern heart." Nor can there be any doubt that it culminated in the awful civil war of 1861-5, and was followed by the embodiment of the assault on the Supreme Court, in the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments.

   Hence, and not unnaturally, supporters of the action of the Chicago convention are asking, "If our platform is anarchy and revolution, what was theirs in 1860?" The point involved is not one of the merits of the platform sentiment in either case; the question is distinctly other, namely, whether we have an infallible Supreme Court to criticize whose decisions when rendered even by a majority of one, and he a turncoat, is "anarchy" or "revolution."

   Not only was the Republican party born in rebellion against the decision of the United States Supreme Court on a pure point of constitutional interpretation, but for the purpose of gaining a majority in that court that would stultify itself by reversing the greenback legal-tender act decision, the Republicans manipulated the bench thrice within eight years after their accession to power in 1861. They made the number of judges ten in 1863, having found it nine; they reduced it to seven in 1866, and again increased it to nine in 1869. It is, perhaps, not strange that in view of their own record on this point, the Republicans are fearful that similar manipulation is contemplated to change the decision on the income tax; but even were it so contemplated, it would be no less the fact that they are the last ones who have any title to criticize such a proceeding.

   Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley and other distinguished ante-bellum Republican leaders used language in criticizing the action of the court on the Dred Scott matter, beside which the most fiery utterances of Tillman and Altgeld seem tame. Sumner, in a speech at Worcester, September 7, 1854, denounced the court as having lent "its sanction to the unutterable atrocity of the fugitive slave act," and the Worcester convention gave him three cheers. Another attack by Sumner is enough to make the "anarchy" editors of McKinley organs fairly shiver, if Bryan had said it, as some joker recently made the Chicago Tribune believe he did. It was Charles Sumner who said:

   "Let me say here that I hold judges and especially the supreme Court of the country in much respect, but I am too familiar with the history of judicial proceedings to regard them with any superstitious reverence. Judges are but men, and in all ages have shown a full share of frailty. Alas! alas! the worst crimes of history have been perpetrated under their sanction. The blood of martyrs and of patriots crying from the ground summons them to judgment."

How Free Coinage Would Help Workingmen.

   Free coinage would at once double the amount of primary or redemption money, for under free coinage silver would be a redemption money with gold. Gold is to-day the only primary or redemption money. This would cause silver, as a commodity, to rise, and gold, as a commodity, to fall, until they reached a level, where they would remain. All prices being to-day measured in gold, would rise as fast as gold fell.

   The agriculturist would receive the profit in higher prices for his products, having received more money for his produce, he would be in a position to spend more buying the things he needed. This creates demand, which starts production. 

   More men are needed in the factories to supply this demand. They receive steady work, and as employers bid against one another for work, wages fall. Steady work, even at a small advance in wages, will allow workingmen to pay the higher prices that they would have to pay for the things they need. Fixed charges (such as interest, railroad fares, salaries of public officers, etc.), would not advance, being already fixed by law. It is a simple proposition that if all the factories in Watertown are running full time and selling their product at higher prices, that their employers are better off.

   It is not because people do not want manufactured goods that our factories are running on less than full time and with a decreased force, but that the people have not the means to buy. Sixty-five per cent of our population are engaged directly and indirectly in agricultural pursuits. If we can bring prosperity to that class the rest will share it.

   Free coinage aims at that result in this way. It will arbitrarily fix the price of silver bullion at $1.29 per ounce, and this country (the greatest and naturally the wealthiest on earth) is powerful enough to fix that price for the world, for no one in a foreign land will take less for silver than he can get for it here. This will prevent England from driving down the price of our agricultural products, for she can no longer buy silver bullion at a low price (from 49 to 68 cents per ounce), coin it and spend it in India at its face value of $1.29 per ounce. Every ounce she buys anywhere will cost her $1.29, and that is all she can spend it for. So she can no longer land Indian wheat and cotton in Liverpool at a low price, but it will cost her full value. Wheat will rise here, cotton will rise, other agricultural products following, the only measure of price being the uninterfered with law of supply and demand. Thus in giving prosperity to the agricultural classes, we give it to ourselves, who make our living directly or indirectly from them.—Watertown Gazette.

Rebuilt Cortland Forging Co. factory complex.

CORTLAND FORGING CO.

Mammoth Shops Nearly Completed—Work to Begin Soon with the Finest Modern Machinery.

   With the exception of the japanning building, the new shops of the Cortland Forging company are nearly complete as far as the masons and carpenters are concerned. The main building is 120x370 feet, running north and south. Parallel with this and connected at the north end is a building 60x290 feet which lays next to the Lehigh Valley tracks. A switch runs along both sides of the works and the machinery inside is so arranged that the rough material goes in on one side and passes through the shop, never going twice over the same ground, and comes out on the other side a finished article at the car door ready to ship.

   The 6,500 square feet of floor surface gives ample room in each department for its own special work and as the buildings are only one story high there will be none of the inconvenience experienced before in getting heavy material up and down stairs. The boilers have all new fittings and are ready for use. The engine will be ready next week. The dynamos are in position and ready for wiring. The heavy iron castings are all that will be used of any of the old machines, and these are fitted with the latest and most improved appliances.

   The electric apparatus is all new, having been built by the Thompson Electric Welding Co. Instead of a fire blast, such as was formerly used to heat iron, the system of the Springfield Aerated Fuel Co. has been put in, using compressed air from an air compressor. The offices are very conveniently arranged in the north end of the buildings.

   The protection against fire is of the best. Fire walls separate the different departments and there are ten stand pipes at convenient places with hose all connected, hanging on a reel ready for use. About two hundred electric lamps will be placed for lighting. A japan building 80x100 feet will be completed within thirty days at the east of the main building. Then it is probable that the temporary machine shop which was erected will be moved over near the boiler room and made into a stable.

   The complete buildings and their machinery will be as fine, if not the finest, in their line in the country. When they start up about the first of September, fifty men will be employed and as new machines are started the force will be increased to about two hundred.

   

Cortland Opera House.

Opera House Season.

   Manager Rood of the Cortland opera house is busy booking attractions for the coming season. The list already signed embraces some of the very best on the road. Among them are many old favorites, such as Wang, Shore Acres, Faust, Old Homestead, Eight Bells, Tornado and Limited Mall.

   Sousa's Band and South Before the War are specimens of the attractions which will be new to Cortland audiences. It is probable that the season will be opened here about the middle of next month, but the date and play have not been fixed.

Great Ball Game To-morrow.

   When the Cortland team was young Auburn defeated them, but we have improved daily since then, and are confident of winning to-morrow's game but not without hard work. It has been arranged to have the full City band give a concert on the grounds during the practice before the game.

   Cortland has won a name in other towns for playing great ball and the manager is daily receiving letters asking for dates with strong teams. This name has not come without hard work and expensive players and as the expenses are very heavy it has been found necessary to charge the ladies 15 cents admission to the Saturday games. Their past patronage has been appreciated and they will be admitted free as before except Saturdays.

   The two pitchers, O'Gara and Gallagher, deliver two entirely different balls and are enough to mix up any opposing team. O'Gara sends a wonderfully swift ball and Gallagher one with a great curve. Both men will play in the game to-morrow which is sure to be a good one.

   The only home game next week will be on Monday with the Shamrocks of Syracuse. Tuesday morning our team leave for a trip, playing Tuesday at Norwich, Wednesday at Oxford, Thursday at Sidney, Friday at Bainbridge and Saturday a return game at Auburn with Auburn.

FROM EVERYWHERE.

   One cent buys a quart of milk at Hornellsville.

   The latest legislature fixed the marriage fee for justices of the peace at one dollar.

   An average of 100 words are annually added to the English language.

   The Watkins Democrat says that the recent damp weather has caused the grapes to mildew in that vicinity.

   A large number of employes are being laid off by the Central Railroad, pending a renewal of business, which is unusually light for this time of year.

   Alfred University now has $250,000 invested in guaranteed securities. Donations in the last ten years aggregate $150,000.

   At a special meeting Killawog people voted to build a $2,500 school building on a $350 site, to replace the one burned.

   Sir William Turner has compiled a table which shows that a whale of 50 tons weight exerts 145 horse-power in swimming 12 miles an hour.

   Northern Arizona  is said to be suffering from an unprecedented water famine. Water for whole villages is hauled by train a distance of one hundred miles.

   The Spanish Consul at Philadelphia has offered a reward of $10,000 for information that will lead to the capture of any filibustering expedition in Cuban waters.

   The total number of presidential electors in all the states in the national contest of four years ago was 444. The total number this year in 447, a gain of three by the admission of Utah.

   A private belonging to a regiment of Highlanders lately rode through the streets of Glasgow on a donkey and was fined over $15, or one month's imprisonment, for attaching ridicule to the queen's uniform.

   The illicit manufacture of opium in San Francisco is a matter that is just now puzzling the officials. Not a steamer leaves port without a load of the terrible intoxicant, and yet the whereabouts of its manufacture remain an unanswerable enigma to those whose duty it is to ferret the matter out.

   Illinois is the next state to Pennsylvania in the production of coal. The mines are in the southern part of the State, and employ 35,000 men. New labor-saving methods are constantly being introduced, one of the latest being the cutting machine, with which one man can do the work of fifteen.

  

Ithaca Clergyman Dead.

   ITHACA, Aug. 6 —Rev. Hiram Gee, a retired Methodist minister, died here to-day, aged 76, of cholera morbus. He left the bulk of his property to the Syracuse University.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.

A Misfit.

   The gold standard newspapers are very clamorously laying down the following contradictory statement: First, that if free coinage is established the owners of free silver mines can take fifty-four cents worth of silver bullion to the mints and get a dollar for it; and that the profit thus made will amount to one hundred and forty-nine millions of dollars. Second, that if free coinage is established forty-four cents worth of bullion can be taken to the mints and exchanged for a dollar, but that the dollar will only be worth fifty cents.

   These two propositions taken together constitute as rational an argument as any gold bug editor has thus far been able to present. If free coinage will only produce a fifty cent dollar in exchange for fifty four cents worth of bullion, where is the mine owner's profit?

   The fact is that the rise and fall in price of all commodities have always steadily followed the rise and fall in the price of silver bullion.

   Free silver coinage would, therefore, increase the price of all other property, except gold, proportionately with the increase in the price of silver bullion. This was illustrated in 1878 and 1890. The silver legislation in those years sent wheat up as high as it did silver bullion. But free coinage would bring down the fictitious value of gold and make it worth only one hundred cents on the dollar. The work of the two metals would not longer be performed by one.

   The present conditions may be illustrated thus: A teamster hauls his load up the hill easily with two horses, but if he takes one horse out of the traces and puts him in the wagon the other horse would have a hard time drawing the wagon, the load and the horse up the hill. If Mr. Bryan is elected, a free silver coinage Congress will also be elected and will again hitch up the silver horse with the gold horse, and then the load will be easily moved.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

   ◘ The gold men are doing everything possible to frighten the farmers and workingmen into voting for McKinley. Money is being used and they will stop at nothing to win. The common people should vote in their own interest this time. They may never have another chance to break the yoke that is pressing upon their necks. The millionaires are against the common people.

TOWN OF SCOTT.

   John G. Landphier is dead. He has been sick for a long time from paralysis of the throat.

   The one taken to Cortland Saturday night for drunkeness and disorderly conduct was sentenced for 30 days. Sentence to be suspended during good behavior.

   The sick people are thought to be improving. E. D. Crosley who has had a raging political fever for some time past, is convalescing. The fever was broken last Saturday night, and it left him very weak.

   The political fever which has been raging for some time past in the republican camp in this town came to a focus last Saturday night. Scarcely a republican in town far or near could be thought of, who was not on hand at the caucus and many democrats and prohibitionists were also present to see the fun.

   Early last spring or winter E. D. Crowley [lawyer and Republican] is said to have made the announcement that E. W. Childs had received the last favor from the town of Scott that he would ever receive and he even took pains to inform Mr. Childs of the decree, so that he might adjust himself to the circumstances of the "New Era" by him now promulgated.

   Well, at an early hour the crowds began to pour in and the bar room of the Central House was full to overflowing, and although the bar was extended to its utmost capacity, yet the thirst of the crowd seemingly could scarcely be assuaged, and the Rains law was dealt out without stint but with pecuniary profit. After awhile the crowd got into the hall above when M. G. Frisbie, the chairman of the Town Committee, called the meeting to order and put in nomination Hon. S. A. Childs as chairman of the caucus, who was chosen without visible opposition. Geo. H. Butts and Harlan Potter were elected tellers, W. J. Cottrell and Wallace Pickett secretaries, and Joseph Pickett and Geo. Maycumber as watchers. Crosley swore in the officers.

   Then it was voted to elect the county delegates by ballot and one at a time W. D Hunt, Esq., in an affecting speech presented the name of E. W. Childs to head the delegation. E. D. Crosley nominated Wm. Roche proprietor of the hotel in opposition. He attempted to put on an honest face as he said their side came here with a list of delegates who would go to the convention entirely free and unpledged. (But they won't go.) Well the ballots were distributed and the crowd surged up to the polls and in the rush numerous democrats were raked in.

   Quite a number presenting ballots were questioned regarding their political faith, some of these were allowed to vote and some were not. The result was: E. W. Childs 96, Wm. Roche 68; 2d ballot, Wallace Pickett 85, S. D. Ames 65; 3d Ballot, C. S. Clark 88, B. H. Potter 57; 4th ballot, Nathan Salisbury 80, F. A. Crosley 56; 5th ballot, Wm. J. Cottrell 83, Harlan Potter 47; 6th ballot, John Vincent no opposition.

   At this junction Crosley was relegated to the rear and his son, F. A. Crosley made a motion that Fred Bierce be allowed to choose his own delegates to the school convention he being a candidate for School Commissioner; this was opposed by E. W. Childs and others in the interest of M. G. Frisbie who also was a candidate for that office. Finally it was agreed to take a vote, those favoring Bierce to vote a ticket with his name and those for Frisbie to vote for him. The result was Frisbie 81, Bierce 75. Mr. Frisbie made choice of Hon. S. A. Childs, Elain Clark, C. M. Kinyon, Wm. Holben. John B. Brown and H. B. Stevens Jr., as his delegates, and soon the crowd passed to or through the barroom between 11 and 12 o'clock at night.

   It has been told that one-half of the people present at the caucus were indisposed but we consider the statement an exaggeration, for not over one-third were full enough to show it. One was taken to the cooler in Cortland during the night and kept till Monday morning and some expressed regret that a car load could not have been shipped down there. One man expressed himself as feeling like a wine-cask without any vent. We don't believe either candidate for School Commissioner paid for liquor. Mr. Frisbie in one instance that night refused to buy for them and the defeated candidate, Mr. Bierce, is a young man who has borne an enviable reputation and is worthy of respect and had he not been handicapped by the support for the time being of one who is distasteful to so many of our citizens, it is thought by many and so expressed by them that he might have been selected as this town's candidate, but such is life and such is politics.

 

DR. NANSEN RESCUED AND COLEMAN-PECK WEDDING

Schooner Fram starting on expedition.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, August 14, 1896.

DR. NANSEN RESCUED.

Letters Received From the Long Missing Explorer.

FOUND ON FRANZ JOSEF LAND.

Failed to Reach the North Pole, but Came Nearer by Four Degrees Than Any of His Predecessors—The Fram Abandoned.

   MALMO, Sweden, Aug. 14.—The newspaper Dagensnyheter has received communications from Dr. Nanson and Lieutenant Schott Hansen from the island of Vardoe. These communications state that they abandoned the Fram in the autumn of 1895 and resorted to the ice.

   The steamer Windward, carrying supplies to the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, picked them up near Franz Josef Land. They expected that the Fram would eventually drift to the east coast of Greenland.

   Dr. Nansen failed to reach the North pole, but he touched a point four degrees nearer than any other explorer has done.

   The steamer Windward took letters for Nansen when it started to the relief of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, as Mr. Jackson expected to find Nansen and was convinced that his idea of drifting across the pole in the ice was impracticable. He was also convinced that Nansen would return in the direction of Franz Josef Land.

   Dr. Nansen left the Fram on March 14, 1895, in 84 degrees north latitude. He traversed the polar sea to a point in 86 degrees and 14 minutes north latitude, situated north of the New Siberia islands.

   No land was sighted north of 82 degrees of latitude nor thence to Franz Josef Land, where he passed the winter, subsisting on bear's flesh and whale blubber.

   Dr. Nansen and his companions are in the best of health.

   The Fram is expected at Vardo or Bergen shortly. She stood the ice well. There were no sick persons aboard when Nansen left there.

Fridtjof Nansen.

NANSEN'S UNDERTAKING.

Description of the Explorer's Vessel, Equipment and Crew.

   Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian scientist, now about 36 years old, sailed from Christiana on June 24, 1893, with the intention of reaching the North pole, if possible. He embarked on board a three-masted schooner, the Fram, which was provided with a 160-horse power steam engine, was of 800 tons and had sides so constructed as to force all ice meeting the vessel to pass under it, thus preventing all "pinching", and "screwing." The Norwegian parliament gave Dr. Nansen about $52,000 in aid of his expedition. Additional funds were forthcoming by private subscription, including one of over $5,000 from King Oscar.

   The Fram was admirably equipped and had a crew of 12 men, all of whom occupied the cabin, which measured only 13 feet square and which was heated by means of an English petroleum stove, which consumed three liters of petroleum a day. The Fram (forward) had enough fuel on board to last eight or nine years, and she also had a library consisting of about 1,000 books.

   Dr. Nansen's plan was to make for the New Siberian island and thence directly north until the Fram should be jammed in the ice. He then proposed to drift along with the ice, following the west coast of any land that might be met.

   A dispatch was received from the doctor at Vardo on Aug. 23, 1893, written in the Yugorski straits on the 2d of that month, announcing that the expedition was about to sail into the Kar sea, and that the Fram, so far, had behaved splendidly.

   Dr. Nansen entered the university at Christiania in 1880 and in 1882 went as a passenger on the sealing steamer Viking to Denmark straits and the east coast of Greenland. It is believed that this voyage laid the foundation for the ambition of his life, namely, that of discovering the North pole.

   On his return from Greenland he was appointed curator of the museum at Bergen and held that position until 1888, when he led a small expedition to Greenland and crossed the southern portion of that country from the east coast to Godhaad on the west coast, where the party wintered and returned to Norway in June, 1889.

   The Windward of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, which has brought Dr. Nansen to that island, left Vardo for Franz Josef Land in order to bring back the British expedition on June 28 last.

   In an interview with Dr. Nansen, previous to his departure, the explorer was quoted as saying.

   "Having considered former expeditions, their outfits and their routes, I have made up my mind to build a little ship, make her strong as possible and just large enough to carry provisions for 12 men for five years.

   "When I arrive at the New Siberian islands I will examine the currents and ice conditions and then select the best moment for a start for the further north through ice free water, which I think will be in August or in the commencement of September. DeLong wrote in his log that while the expedition drifted in the ice north of Bennett island they saw a dark 'water sky.' It is a sky which shows the reflection of water all around. It must consequently be possible to cover a considerable distance in winters and cold summers."

   The dimensions of the Fram were: Length, 125 feet; beam, 36 feet; depth from deck to keel, 17 feet. With her cargo she was about 800 tons dead weight and her hull was built almost entirely of oak and in the strongest manner possible. At the points exposed to pressure from the ice her sides were from 30 to 33 inches thick and her hull was coated on the outside with ice sheathing, composed of a thick layer of greenheart, a hard American wood which has an oily surface. Her engines were made in Norway, were of triple expansion and of 160 indicated horse power.

   Bread was the principal nourishment of Dr. Nansen and his fellow explorers. The bread was a kind of biscuit, large and round, white and very compact. The ration of each man was to consist of four biscuits a day. The tents used by the expedition were made of silk, as it was claimed this material shut out cold better than anything else.

  

    Dr. Nansen's companions were Captain Otto Sverdrup, ship's master; E. Sigurd Scott Hansen, a lieutenant in the Norwegian navy and director of the astronomical, meteorological-magnetic observations; Henrik Blessing, surgeon and botanist; Theodore C. Jacobsen, mate; Peter Hendriksen, harpooner; Anton Amundsen, chief engineer; Lars Peterson, an officer in the Norwegian army; fireman Bernard Nordahl, electrician; Ivan Mogstad, carpenter, and Adolph Juell, steward.

SWEET CIDER NOT TAXABLE.

Declared Exempt Under the Raines Liquor Tax Law.

   ALBANY, Aug. 14.—The manufacturers and dispensers of sweet cider are exempt from taxation under the Raines liquor tax law. This is the gist of an opinion rendered by Excise Commissioner Lyman in response to numerous queries from people all over the state as to whether the liquor law affected the sale of sweet cider.

   This law does not require a certificate for the manufacture of any kind of liquor or the sale thereof in quantity of five wine gallons or over; and, therefore, the manufacture of sweet cider, which is in no sense a liquor under the law, is wholly exempt from a liquor tax. The sale or traffic in sweet or unfermented cider in any quantities does not require a liquor tax certificate. Cider in its natural process passes through an organically chemical change called fermentation, and not before the change is sufficiently completed to render it what is known as "hard cider" does the law classify it as a "liquor" and require a certificate to legalize its sale in quantity under five wine gallons.

   Sales of "hard cider" in quantity of five wine gallons or over are entitled to the same exemption as any other kind of liquor and do not require n liquor tax certificate.

THE SALE OF CIDER.

Farmers Must not Sell Less Than Ten Gallons.

   County Treasurer Ingersoll, says the Ithaca Journal, is receiving many questions these days as to whether or not cider can be sold, either sweet or sour. The greater number of these requests are coming from people who live in the country. After the passage of the Raines bill this question was put to Commissioner Lyman and in absence of any provision of the statute ruled that cider must not be sold in smaller quantities than ten gallons. According to this ruling Mr. Ingersoll tells each and every one what Mr. Lyman thinks and how they must act on account of it.

The L. A. W. Signboards.

   The New York State division of the L. A. W. will begin at once the placing of signboards throughout the state, which will show the distance between villages and also their names. These guide posts are to be placed at all crossroads, mounted on thirteen-foot locust posts, and are expected to be of great benefit to the traveling public. The total number throughout New York state will reach several thousand. The expense of putting up the signs is met by the fund accruing from a meet held at Manhattan Beach last year. The signs are to be constructed of metal, and are to have a dark blue background, on which will be large raised letters of yellow.

WAITING TO SEE

How the Financial Question is to be Decided.

   A Groton correspondent writes as follows to the Ithaca Journal: "Groton already feels something of the disastrous effects arising from this free silver scare. Last Saturday the Crandall Manufacturing Co., makers of typewriters and bicycles, shut down, throwing about seventy men out of employment. The proprietors say that they will not resume work until they see how this silver question is going to be settled.

   "Our other manufactories are also greatly crippled by the uncertainty of the money market, especially is this true of the Bridge Works, which is having a great deal of trouble in selling the town and city bonds in places where they have contracted for work. In some cases they found it nearly impossible to sell even at a high rate of interest."

[Cortland] Hospital Wants.

   A water cooler, tablecloths, napkins, tray cloths and rugs. Sheets, pillowcases, counterpanes and towels, always acceptable. Fresh eggs, fruits and vegetables. Please call at the hospital and take fruit cans home with you and fill for their winter use.

COLEMAN-PECK.

Brilliant Wedding on Greenbush-st. Thursday Evening.

   The home of Mrs. Caroline Peck, 32 Greenbush-st., was last evening the scene of a brilliant and exceedingly pleasant wedding when her youngest daughter, Miss Cora Edna Peck, was united in marriage with Mr. Carlos J. Coleman of Madison, N. Y. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Adelbert Chapman, pastor of the Baptist church, assisted by Rev. Geo. H. Brigham, in the presence of over one hundred relatives and friends of the bride and groom.

   Promptly at 8 o'clock the bridal party entered the parlor while the orchestra in an adjoining room played the Lohengrin Wedding March—the groom accompanied by the best man, his brother, Mr. James Coleman of Syracuse, and the bride with the maid of honor, her sister, Miss Ida L. Peck. During the ceremony the party stood beneath the extending branches of large palms with a background and canopy of oak leaves and white everlasting flowers. The ushers were Messrs. Fred Peck of Syracuse, L. A. Squires, H. M. Collins and J. P. Gray of Cortland. Miss Gracie B. Peet, a niece of the bride, acted as flower girl.

   The bride wore a handsome gown of white taffetta silk with chiffon trimmings and veil and carried a bouquet of bride roses. The maid of honor wore a corn colored organdie and carried a bouquet of roses to match.

   The entire lawn between the house where the ceremony occurred, and the one adjoining, had been enclosed and covered with canvas. The enclosure was decorated with palms, flowers and Chinese lanterns and formed a most cool and delightful place for serving the wedding supper which was under the direction of Caterer Geo. D. Griffith.

   The large display of wedding presents occupied an entire room up stairs [sic]. The groom's present to the bride was a handsome diamond pin; to the best man he gave a neat gold pin set with a diamond and to each of the ushers a stick pin with pearl setting. The bride's present to the groom was a solid gold watch and to the maid of honor a gold ring set with opals.

   Shortly after 10 o'clock the bride and groom accompanied by the maid of honor and best man drove to Homer where they took the 11:20 train. They did not escape from the house, however, without a plentiful shower of rice and a still larger shower awaited them upon the arrival of the train at the Cortland station where a large delegation of the guests had assembled, confident that they would be upon this train, notwithstanding the efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Coleman to get away without being observed.

   Mr. and Mrs. Coleman will spend two or three weeks in the North Woods, at the Thousand Islands and will take a trip down the Hudson before returning to Madison, where Mr. Coleman has been teaching since his graduation from the Normal and where they expect to make their home. The young people start upon their married life with unusually bright prospects. Both have hosts of friends among whom they have always been deservedly popular, all of whom unite in wishing them abundant success.

   Among the guests from out of town who were present at the wedding were:

   Messrs. Fred Peck and James Coleman of Syracuse, Mr. and Mrs. Platt Peck and Mr. Geo. Peck of Brookton, Mrs. Wm. Albee and Mrs. Jas. Bladon of Minneapolis, Mrs. J. G. Bingham and Miss Maud Bingham of Solon, Mr. and Mrs. John Coleman of Eaton, Mr. and Mrs. Dunster of Madison, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Havens of North Lansing, Miss Fannie E. Thompson of Cazenovia, Miss Harriet C. Hawley of Broadalbin and Prof. and Mrs. A. B. Ingalls of Honolulu.

Entertainment Aug. 21.

   The Sunday-school of the A. M. E. church (colored) is preparing for another entertainment of song and recitation which will be given in Collins' hall Friday, Aug. 21, at 8 o'clock P. M. The members of the school are competing for prizes in singing and speaking. The prizes will be awarded that evening.

   The admission price has been placed at 5 cents. Stone soup will be served after the entertainment.

BREVITIES.

   —Mrs. S. P. Bulkley entertained all her boarders at tea last night at the park.

   —The C. A. A. this morning strung a banner across Main-st, advertising the matinee [bicycle] races next Saturday.

   —The large billboards at the Samson corner, where the new block is to be erected, were torn down this morning.

   —Lieut. Col. Wm. Wooley of the American Volunteers will hold a meeting in the W. C. T. U. rooms this evening at 8 o'clock, also meeting in the open air on the street.

   —Six carloads of brick for paving Railroad-st. arrived over the D., L. & W. R. R. this morning from Hornellsville by way of Binghamton. Paving will be begun Monday.

   —The seventh annual Scotch picnic will be held at the home of Mr. Robert Lamont, on the road between Dryden and McLean, on Wednesday, August 20.

   —New advertisements to-day are— Bacon, Chappel & Co., Inventory Completed, page 5; W. L. Perkins, Carnrick's Soluble Food, page 4; Tanner Bros., Beautiful New Silks, page 6.

   —Hereafter all bicycles and carriages leaving the fair grounds after the ball games will be expected to leave by the north gate which will be specially opened for the purpose. Pedestrians will then not be in danger of their lives.