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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton. |
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.
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