DEATH IN THE DARK

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, August 7, 1896.

DEATH IN THE DARK.

Jay White of Truxton Collided With a Team at Night. Died Soon After.

Another Narrow Escape in Cortland.

   Mr. E. Jay White was riding his wheel along the street in Truxton Saturday evening, when he ran directly into the front of a rig driven by Mr. J. Osterhout, who lives just out of town. One of the thills struck young White in the chest crushing it in and throwing him from his wheel.

   He was picked up unconscious and carried to a store and Dr. Van Hoesen called. He said White was beyond help. The young man died in a few minutes. He was 21 years old, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Darwin White of Truxton. A large circle of friends held him in the highest esteem.

   The horse driven by Osterhout was frightened and turned round throwing him to the ground but with no injuries.

   The funeral was held from his late home in Truxton, and the remains taken to Pharsalia for burial.

WHEELMEN SHOULD CARRY LANTERNS.

   Had young White had a lantern on his wheel his death would probably not have occurred. Another accident here in town last Friday evening came near being a serious one. Mrs. E. A. Townsend was turning from Main St. to go up Madison behind a trolley car. She did not see Mr. C. H. Warren driving on the other side of the track till she was almost in front of the horse. When he saw her he pulled up quick, raising the horse on his hind legs. Mrs. Townsend passed directly under the horse and fell from the wheel receiving a few bruises.

   Similar accidents are occurring nearly every night, and the majority of them would be averted if wheelmen would carry lanterns after dark.

Samson block.

A NEW BUSINESS BLOCK.

Mr. J. M. Samson has Begun work for a Three Story Building in the Groton-Ave. Corner.

   Cortland is to have another fine business block. For some years the cellar on the Samson lot at corner of Groton-ave. and Main st. has been in readiness and now carpenters are getting out material and contracts are being closed for brick and stone to build a three story building. It will be 33 feet, 4 inches on the Main-st. side by 71 feet on Groton-ave., three stories high, with a 12 foot, two story annex on Groton-ave. The front will be like the Whitney building, which is owned by Mr. Samson's sister. The Groton-ave. side is to be of buff brick with trimmings of Pottsdam sandstone. The lower floor is to be one large store with a large window on the Groton-ave. corner and another window on side entrance at the west end. The upper floors are for offices.

   It is to be completed by April 1st.

FROM EVERYWHERE.

   Binghamton has a new fire bell, weighing approximately 5,000 pounds.

   The Chine Ranch of 53,000 acres of Los Angeles, Cal., is sold for $1,600,000 to Englishmen.

   Men marry at 25 for love; at 40 for comfort; at 50 for companionship; and at 60 because they are old fools.

   A Seneca Falls man gave a young fellow a dollar the other day for giving up his seat in a street car to a lady.

   Burglars at the Tioga, Pa. post office, Saturday of last week, got away with $1,000 in money and office stamps.

   Farmers in Douglas county, Kan., are educating their horses to eat potatoes which they can feed at 11 cents while corn stands for 17 cents.

   Chicago is to have a tower 1,150 feet high on a base 350 feet square. Thirty-five elevators will carry people to the different landings.

   A liquor dealer in Cayuga county was convicted of selling liquor to a habitual drunkard a few days ago, and was fined $250 and sent to jail for sixty days.

   Elmira contemplates sending a current of 30,000 volts of electricity through the water supplied to the city, thus electrocuting the various microbes which infest that commodity.

   The Holland Society of New York has commissioned Daniel C. French to model an equestrian statue of William the Silent, to cost $50,000 and to be set up in New York city.

   The first Bryan and Sewall pole to be erected in Cayuga county was hoisted last week on the farm of Mr. Bowen in the town of Aurelius. The pole is of hickory and is 75 feet high.

   The grounds of the Cayuga County Agricultural Society were sold at auction last week in foreclosure proceedings. They were bid in for $4,000 subject to a mortgage of $6,500.

   A young lady of Nunda was attacked by a rattlesnake while berrying, but she killed the reptile which was five feet, eleven inches long, and when cut open disclosed six living little rattlers.

   During the last 20 years $500,000 worth of Painted Post property has been destroyed by fire. On the top of all this a majority of the village taxpayers recently voted down a waterworks system.

   A religious sect called the "Abstainers" eat no meat. They built a church in

Third street, Philadelphia, years ago, and lack of zeal on the part of the members compelled them to sell the edifice. It is now used as a sausage factory.

  

HERE AND THERE.

   A partial eclipse of the moon will occur on the night of August 22-23.

   Counterfeit silver dollars, not easily detected, are reported in circulation.

   Band concert and dance at the park tomorrow evening. Reduced rates from Homer and McGrawville. Also a band concert Sunday afternoon.

   The excursion train of the employes of the Wickwire wire mills to Long Branch last Saturday carried about 500 people. A day of good entertainment is reported by all.

   "Brewery Hill" is again aroused. Lewis Rood charges Fred Johnson with larceny in taking his horse. Johnson pleaded not guilty and the trial is to be held this morning.

   Boards of health are denouncing the new kind of candy known as "all-day suckers," as directly responsible for the spread of whooping-cough and other diseases.

   In last Friday's ball game the Bainbridge team proved to be too much for the Cortland boys. The playing on both sides was of the best, but the Bainbridge pitcher was hard to find and we only got 4 men over the plate to 7 for the visitors.

   Mrs. Geo. P. Hollenbeck entertained sixteen of her boarders and their friends at the park Monday afternoon. At six o'clock an elegant supper was served after which impromptu toasts were heard from most of those present on topics of the day.

   Secretary Mellon is working on the premium list for the county fair which will embrace a larger field than ever before for competition. Preliminaries give promise of the greatest exposition in the history of the Cortland County Agricultural Society.

   Men have been busy for the past few weeks moving water hydrants and telephone poles inside the curb line and running sewer, gas and water connections to the curbing on Railroad-st. in preparation for the [brick] pavement, so that it need not be torn up after it is laid. All is now in readiness.

   A colored folks' concert will be held in the Cortland opera house, Wednesday evening, August 12, under the direction of Mr. T. W. Sampson. The company is made up largely of Cortland artists whom Mr. Sampson has spent a great deal of time in preparing for this concert. A variety of new and attractive songs will be rendered. All desiring an evening of enjoyment should be present as the price of admission has been placed at the low figure of 25 cents. Reserved seats on sale at the Candy Kitchen.

   The five wagons which were ordered by the United States war department of the Ellis Omnibus & Cab Co. are completed. They are models of their kind, being designed for use on the frontier to carry men from one fort to another, etc. One was hipped last Monday and the other four will go in a few days.

   Mr. George W. Porter, an aged resident of Cortland, died at his late residence on Maple-ave. last Saturday. He was a mason for half his life-time and the funeral was under their ritual from the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. F. Coggswell, Tuesday afternoon. The remains were placed in the Rural cemetery.

   Mr. Morgan Pickert was found unconscious under his wagon soon after having driven into his barn near Freetown last Saturday. Medical aid was summoned but he died before the physician arrived. A bruise beneath the chin indicates that he probably fell in getting out of the wagon or was kicked by the horse.

   Daniels' orchestra will give a grand promenade concert and dance at the armory to-morrow night. They will have eight men including Mr. Patsy Conway, the cornetist of Ithaca. A concert will be given from 7 to 8 o'clock, then dancing till 12, every third number to be a round dance. A charge of ten cents at the door gives a gentleman two dance tickets. Ladies free. Dancing 5 cents a set.

   Fred Sharr of Homer sustained a serious accident last Thursday night. His room at the Hotel Windsor opened out upon the roof of an extension. On this occasion he had exchanged rooms for the night. Some time in the night, the room getting too cool, he got up to shut down the window and in doing so the stick which supported it fell outside. Without thinking that he was in a strange room Sharr stepped out onto what he supposed was going to be the tin roof to get the stick, but there was no roof there and he fell to the ground, a distance of from fifteen to twenty feet, breaking both arms, one in two places.

SCOTT.

   Politics are red hot this week.

   We hear that the Frink switch is quite badly washed by the late rains.

   George Fox of this town is being visited by a son of his from the West.

   Erwin Langdon has been quite ill, but is so as to sit up some at this writing.

   We hear that E. W. Childs has traded his farm in East Scott with John Long for a house and lot in Cortland.

   Otis Getman and family of Cortland were in town visiting last Sunday, so also were Oscar Potter and wife.

   Miss Grace Clark, a former resident here but now of Wisconsin, accompanied by her aunt, Mrs. Stanton of Cazenovia, has been entertained by friends in this place.

   George Clinton of Binghamton has been visiting his brother-in-law, Archie Gould, of this town. He reports many republicans of that city who will vote for Bryan for president.

   Nelson Hall, who was taken from this town to Binghamton some time since for insanity, but who has been at home for several months past attending to his business, has again been taken to that place, being again deemed unsafe.

   Two runaways in town of late. A pair of colts belonging to Wm. Brown ran away with a democrat wagon, spilling out several persons, breaking from the wagon and being separated ran several miles. The other was a pair of colts, which ran away with a mowing machine.