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| Gen. Antonio Maceo. |
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| Gen. Julian Suarez Inclan. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, July 20,
1896.
THE SPANIARDS BEATEN.
General Inclan In the Hands of the Cubans.
HIS FORCES PUT TO ROUT.
The
Spanish Leader Ambushed by Antonio Maceo's Forces and Captured
After a
Hot Fight In Which the Spanish Lost Hundreds.
KEY WEST, Fla., July 20.—The Spaniards under General Suarez Inclan have sustained a crushing defeat at the hands of the
insurgents under Antonio Maceo. Not only was Inclan's column defeated with
heavy loss, but it is currently reported in Havana that the Spanish general
himself was captured and is now held as a prisoner by Maceo.
The battle is said to have occurred on July
15, near Maceo's stronghold, in the province of Pinar del Rio. For the last two
weeks the insurgents have been very aggressive, and some small parties have repeatedly
attacked the trocha, causing the Spaniards much annoyance. General Inclan was
ordered to drive back these detached bands of insurgents, and for this purpose
took with him 2,000 men. Maceo seems to have expected such a movement and
arranged to ambush the Spaniards.
He stationed a large force in a favorable position
and ordered his detached bands to draw Inclan into the trap.
The Spaniards followed the insurgent skirmishers
incautiously and fell into the ambush. Then the Cubans opened fire from all
sides which threw the Spaniards into confusion. While the Spaniards were thus
disordered, the Cubans charged, completely routing their foes.
General Inclan made a desperate effort to
rally his demoralized forces, but was surrounded by the Cubans and compelled to
surrender.
It is said in Havana that the Spaniards were
pursued almost to the trocha and lost more than 300 men killed and wounded.
There were 14 officers among the killed.
Cubans here also say that Maceo will hold
Inclan as a hostage to save the lives of prominent insurgent officers who have been
captured by the Spaniards. One of these officers is Capote. If this rebel
leader is shot by the Spanish it is said Inclan will meet the same fate at the
hands of Maceo.
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| Cecil Rhodes. |
RHODES
HELD GUILTY.
Was a
Party to the Raid Into the Transvaal.
REPORT
OF THE CAPE COMMITTEE
Declares
the Premier Was Aware of the Invasion and Made no Effort to
Prevent
It—A Minority Report In His Favor.
CAPE TOWN, July 20.—The select committee of
the house of assembly of Cape Colony to inquire into the circumstances of the Jameson raid has made a report.
It finds that Cecil Rhodes was fully
acquainted with the preparations for the raid and that Alfred Beit, director in
the South Africa company, Dr. Jameson, the administrator for the company in
Rhodesia, and Dr. Rutherford Harris, secretary for the company at CapeTown,
were active promoters of the raid.
It also finds that Dr. Jameson personally obtained
from Johannesburg a letter of invitation for his raiders to come fully a month
before the ostensible date.
There was no evidence adduced to show that
Cecil Rhodes intended that the Pitsani force should invade the Transvaal uninvited.
But at the same time there was an absence
of any peremptory command from Mr. Rhodes to prevent the raid. Mr. Rhodes and
Dr. Harris drafted a telegram containing a command, but it was never
dispatched, not even when the wires (cut by Dr. Jameson's orders) were restored.
The committee, therefore, cannot acquit
Cecil Rhodes of responsibility. Mr. Rhodes never informed his colleagues of the
raid. Sir Hercules Robinson, governor of Cape Colony, and Sir Jacobus Dewet,
British agent at Pretoria, alone sent telegrams to arrest Dr. Jameson's advance.
The Chartered South Africa company, the
committee finds, supplied all the funds for
the raid with the knowledge of its London office. Cecil Rhodes afterwards refunded
this amount to the company.
The report of the select committee concludes
with an expression of regret that Cecil Rhodes did not attend the committee's meeting
to give evidence. The committee is therefore forced to the conclusion that his
conduct was not consistent with the duty of a Cape premier.
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| Cartoon image of Nikola Tesla. |
NIAGARA'S
MIGHTY POWER.
Tesla
Demonstrates That It Can Be Successfully Transmitted.
BUFFALO, July 20.—Electric power will be
transmitted to this city from Niagara Falls for industrial purposes on or
before Nov. 1, 1896. Nicola Tesla says so, and he ought to know. He made the
statement after an experiment which he personally conducted and which was
successful in the extreme.
The contracts for laying the conduits in the
streets of Buffalo in which the wires will be carried will be closed this week.
The contract for the pole line which will carry the wires from the power house
at the Falls to the city line will also be made this week.
Nicola Tesla came to the Falls from Pittsburg,
where he had inspected the machinery there being constructed for the Niagara
Falls Power company by the Westinghouse concern. The great electrician met the
officials of the Power company at the Falls.
His part in the scheme was to invent and
reduce to practice the method by which electric power may be transformed at the
Falls into a current of high voltage to avoid loss in transmission and then be again
transformed at Buffalo at a "step-down" transformer into a current of
great energy.
These two transformers have been built
according to Tesla's plans. He declares
that by his 2-phase system 10,000 volts can be transmitted for a greater
distance and at 1/400 the loss with which the Buffalo railroad company
transmits [direct current] power over its operating lines; that he can handle any voltage, no
matter how high, as easily as a train carries baggage.
Many scientists and electricians were present
to see the power from the dynamo turned over to the "step-up"
transformer, and when the test was made and declared by the inventor a success,
the party showered congratulations and rejoicings upon the modest young
electrician.
THE NEW
DIRECTORY.
Containing
Residents of Cortland, Homer, Marathon and McGrawvllle.
The new directory of Cortland, Homer, Marathon
and McGrawville, which is prepared once in two years by Samuel Parsons of
Syracuse, has just been completed and its delivery will begin at once. Of the
typographical work we will say nothing farther than that it was issued from The
STANDARD'S job rooms and that we are not ashamed of it. The work will speak for
itself. It has been well bound in the usual style of the Parsons directories by
John Turk, bookbinder, Journal building, 130 and 132 James-st., Syracuse.
Particular care was made in the canvass for
the names and it is believed that the book can be implicitly relied upon and that
all errors have been reduced to the minimum. It contains many valuable features.
In addition to the usual alphabetical directory of each of the four villages it
contains a duplex directory of each street in Cortland, so that a glance at that
street gives the names of every person residing or boarding upon the street in
the order of the numbers of the houses. It also contains the officers of the
four villages, the organization and officers of the fire departments, all
societies of all kinds, the teachers in all of the schools, the notices of the
churches and a complete and well classified business directory.
In fact it is a bureau of useful information
in regard to the four villages. It is a book which every one has use for.
Notwithstanding the additional cost of preparing the extra features, Mr.
Parsons will sell the directories at the former price of $2.50 per copy and
will be ready to take orders for them and fill them at once. Directories can
also be obtained at the book stores in the several villages.
SENT TO
THE PENITENTIARY.
Tramp
Charles Doyle Fell Into the Hands of Cortland Officers.
A tramp appeared in Cortland Saturday, but
is now whiling away his time in Onondaga penitentiary. He made himself very
obnoxious to residents in the western part of the village and conducted himself
in a very indecent manner.
A
telephone message was sent to police headquarters complaining of him. A little
later another message came from the east part of the town, saying the tramp was
in that part. Officer Parker at once started in that direction and on the way
met Chief Linderman. The two soon located the stranger seated at a back door
eating a lunch.
As soon as he saw the officers he made a bee
line for Port Watson-st., down through the back yards and down the Lehigh
Valley tracks. The officers were in hot pursuit and fired several shots into
the air, but the fleeing fugitive paid no heed.
Dell Barber mounted his wheel and assisted
the officers in their pursuit. He went down Pomeroy-st. and intercepted Mr.
Tramp on Port Watson-st., making the capture near the screen factory. The officers
arrived on the scene at once and conducted the captured one to the police station.
This morning he gave his name as Charles
Doyle of Portland, Ore. He was arraigned on the charge of disorderly conduct to which he pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to ninety days in Onondaga penitentiary to which place he was taken
this morning by Chief Linderman. It is highly probable that upon his release he
will be arrested and be called to answer to another charge that may be
preferred against him in regard to his conduct Saturday.
She
Still Lives.
Last Thursday evening between the hours of 8
and 9 people passing along
Tompkins-st.
had the temperature of their blood lowered several degrees by hearing angry
words followed by the agonizing scream of a woman and pitiful cries for help.
Visions of a ghastly murder rushed with lightning rapidity through the brains
of the startled ones; upon investigating it was discovered that the sounds came
from the C. A. A. building where the "Tramp's Daughter" and her father
were rehearsing their scenes for the performance next Wednesday evening. Though
it was somewhat of a joke, all felt relieved that nothing serious had happened
and expressed their opinion that if the tramp and his daughter are as realistic
next Wednesday evening the play will certainly be a success.
BREVITIES.
—Tickets are selling rapidly for the
excursion of the A. O. H. to the Thousand Islands on July 25.
—The Sunday-schools of the two Methodist
churches unite in an excursion to Cascade, Owasco lake, on Tuesday, July 28.
—There will be a regular meeting of the board
of village trustees this evening, at which it is expected the bids for the
paving of Railroad-st. will be opened.
—The car shop nine was again on Saturday
defeated by a team from the Wickwires by the score of 20 to 12. Conway's
bewildering curves puzzled the car shop batters.
—The regular meeting of Grover Relief Corps,
No. 96, will be held to-morrow, July 21 at 2:30 P. M. A full attendance
of its members is greatly desired as business of importance will be discussed.
—One of the largest crowds of the season was
at the fair grounds Saturday afternoon at the baseball game between the
Cortlands and the Shamrocks of
Syracuse.
The latter won by a score of 14 to 9.
—New advertisements to-day are—Case, Ruggles
& Bristol, winding up the sale, page 6; A. Mahan, the summer girl, page 7;
D. H. Cook, Hotel Chautauqua, page 8; C. F. Brown, we rise to remark, page 7.
—The Elmira Advertiser says that E. S.
Matthewson, the sprinter from Cortland, will be elected a member of the Elmira
Athletic club at the next meeting and will hereafter run under the colors of
the organization.
—Mr. and Mrs. E. Mudge entertained a number
of friends at an elaborate tea Saturday
evening in honor of Mr. Mudge's brother, Mr. Byron Mudge of Le Mars, Ia., who
is a former resident of Cortland and who is spending a few weeks here.
—Mr. R. C. Tillinghast, Mrs. C. F. Blackmail.
Mr. Willis H. McGraw, Miss
Mary E.
Hughes, Miss Cornelia A. White, Miss Anna O. Collins, Miss Elizabeth G. McGraw
and Mr. C. H. White were yesterday appointed a committee from the Presbyterian
Sunday-school to select a time and place and make arrangements for a Sunday
school picnic.
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