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| Gen. Valeriano Weyler. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Tuesday, September 8, 1896.
MANY ARRESTS MADE.
Minions
of General Weyler Active In Cuba.
AMERICAN
CITIZENS IN PRISON.
Weyler
Forms a New Plan to End the Rebellion In Short Order—New
Scheme
of Military Drag Net to Sweep the Island.
HAVANA, Sept. 8.—The work of arresting
people charged with conspiring against the government continues here. Last week
the American colony was startled by the arrest of Samuel S. Tolon, a
naturalized American and a prominent merchant of Cardenas, who was captured on
board the Ward line steamer Seneca as she was upon the point of sailing to the
United States.
Sunday a magistrate, Senor Gonzalez Llanuza,
was taken into custody and placed in solitary confinement. The same day a
prominent lawyer, Senor Alberto Zayas, a brother of the well known general of
that name, was also placed in secret confinement, and now the arrest is
announced of Senors Enrique Lama and Ignacia Lama, brothers; Senor Hernandez,
an American, and Herr Hubert Blank, a German, director of the Academy of Music
here.
All the persons mentioned are detained
incommunicado, that is to say they are not allowed to communicate with their
friends or with counsel and their friends have no means of communicating with them
or of knowing anything about their treatment or the charges made against them.
Sooner or later, it is to be presumed, they
will be shipped to some penal settlement and that will be the last heard of them.
It is reported here that the captain general
has formed a new plan of campaign which is certain to end the insurrection one
way or the other.
If rumor in this case turns out to be founded
on fact, some 30 Spanish steamers loaded with troops will arrive here before the
end of this month and an overpowering military cordon, or drag net, will be
formed of all the troops available, stretching a line, practically of armed
men, backed by a second and a third reserve line, which will stretch from north
to south and which will be drawn from one end of the island to the other, thus,
according to plan, cornering the insurgents and compelling them to fight a
pitched battle.
The police have seized a number of important
documents connected with the revolutionary movement and it is understood that
this will result in a number of additional arrests of important personages.
Walter Stafford, Robert Roe, John Fisher and
Howard Creighton, four sailors who were captured in an open boat off the coast
of Santiago de Cuba several months ago, have been set at liberty, it having
been proved that they were not filibusterers, but deserters from an English
bark, the Iona, and that they had made their way to Cuban waters from the coast
of Hayti.
The list of persons recently arrested was added
to by receipt of a dispatch from Manzanillo announcing the suspension of La
Union, one of the leading newspapers of that part of the island and the
imprisonment of its editor, Senor Andres Castro. The unfortunate editor is now
confined in a cell at Fort Gerona.
The exact nature of the charge against him
is not known, but it is understood to be of a political nature.
General Anguilar and his wife, who have been
suffering from yellow fever, are not improving.
General Molina reports having captured Senor
Oscar Cespedes, a relation of the ex-president, Carlos Manuel Cespedes. The
prisoner is now confined at Fort Severino, Matanzas.
A force of insurgents burned the village of
San Francisco de Paula, seven miles from this city.
The Marquis Apezteguia, at the instance of
his wife who is an American lady, has turned over his fine mansion at Vedado,
this province, to the government authorities in order that it may be converted
into an asylum for children.
Philippine
Islands Rebellion.
MADRID, Sept. 8.—An official dispatch from
General Blanco, governor general of the Philippine islands, announces the
discovery of a fresh conspiracy against the Spanish government. He adds that
the new plot unearthed is widespread in its ramifications.
Numerous arrests have already been made in
this connection and the authorities are arresting many more people.
On the other hand, the captain general
announced that a number of insurgents have made their submission.
The first reinforcements have arrived at the
Philippine islands from the Mindana islands.
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
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In ordinary times 20,000
soldiers are kept in Cuba to garrison it, only 5,000 less than the whole United
States army. By the time the 40,000 recruits that Spain lately ordered to Cuba
arrive there this fall she will have dispatched to the island altogether
150,000 soldiers to suppress a rebellion in a country which had only 1,500,000
population to begin. Counting the 20,000 regularly garrisoned, the whole number
of soldiers that could not put down the Cuban revolution is 170,000. The Cubans
are better equipped for fighting than they were in January, 1895, when they
began the struggle to throw off the Spanish yoke. Spain may as well give up.
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Many of the Russian and Polish
Jewish immigrants who come to this country are so ignorant that they believe a
divorce pronounced by a rabbi is valid. Numerous instances have occurred in which
husbands and wives divorced by rabbinical decree have taken new conjugal partners,
fully believing they were legally free. What is more, the rabbis who divorced
them either themselves did not know such divorces were illegal or had willfully
kept the parties in the cases in ignorance. Yet these Polish and Russian men have
no trouble at all in securing citizenship papers and thousands of them will
vote for presidential electors in November.
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It becomes a serious question
what to do with the surplus horses on the great western ranges. There are over
100,000 of these that roam unbridled and unbroken. The
experiment of slaughtering them and canning their meat was not a success.
Perhaps if some enterprising capitalist would establish a chain of fertilizer factories
among them he might make it pay along with the perquisites from their hoofs and
hides. Unless something is done to diminish their rapidly increasing numbers
there seems danger that our western range country will be overrun with a horse
pest equal to the rabbit pest in some of the California counties.
Chinese
Smuggling Scheme Unearthed.
BUFFALO, Sept. 7.—Chinese Inspector
O'Meara., who for the past week has been watching the border line between
Buffalo and Niagara Falls, believes that he has unearthed one of the biggest
Chinese smuggling games on record. From what has been learned it is known that
all summer Chinamen have been smuggled across the river from Chippewa, Ont., to
a point on the American border and from thence have been taken under cover of
darkness to a laundry at Tonawanda and after being kept there for some time
have been liberated one by one.
Some of them went to Buffalo, some to
Rochester and others to distant cities. The game has been a very clever one and
only came to the ears of Inspector O'Meara by accident. Arrests are likely to
follow at once, as the names of the parties engaged in the smuggling are known.
Cornell's
Football Team.
ITHACA, N. Y., Sept. 7.—Captain Joseph W.
Beecham of the Cornell football team has returned to Ithaca and ordered his men
to report for active training on Sept. 14. The opening game of the season will
be that with Rochester university at Ithaca on Sept. 23. The completed schedule
of games has not yet been made public, but games with some of the larger
colleges are as follows:
Harvard at Ithaca, Oct. 24; Princeton at
Princeton, Oct. 31; Williams at Buffalo,
Nov. 14; Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, Thanksgiving day, Nov. 20.
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| Railroad Street, Cortland, N. Y. |
VILLAGE
TRUSTEES.
Special
Policeman Appointed. Bills Audited. Executive Session Held.
The village trustees held a regular meeting
last night at the office of the village clerk. After the approval of the
minutes of the previous meeting E. N. Sherwood was appointed a special
policeman to act at the
[former roller skating] rink on South Main-st. and its vicinity at the expense
of the proprietors of the rink. [This building was also a former armory, and a dance hall in 1896—CC editor.]
The matter of the compensation of Price
& Co. for sprinkling streets was referred to Trustees Warfield and Wallace.
Bills were audited as follows:
Street Commissioner's pay roll, $245.25
Thomas Mulligan, labor, 9.65
F. A. Bickford, salary, 25.00
A. G.
Bosworth, express, .35
S. F. Hayward & Co., hose, 2.50
Cortland & Homer Electric Co., .40
Police Force, 140.00
W. T. Linderman, cleaning station house,
1.75
W. T. Linderman, telephoning, 1.05
W. T. Linderman, feeding prisoners, 1.00
W. J. Moore, health officer, 32.50
J. J. Murphy, sign painting, 1.00
Cortland & Homer Electric Co., 490.40
Gutta Percha & Rubber Mfg. Co., 360.00
Civil Engineer W. B. Landreth came before
the board and presented an estimate of work done and material furnished during
the month of August by the Jamestown Construction Co., contractors for paving
Railroad-st. and the board appropriated $390.45 to cover such expense. The
following bills for expenses incident to paving Railroad-st. were audited.
W. B. Landreth, engineering, $200.00
Engineering News Publishing Co., 20.40
B. B. Jones, printing, 22.50
A petition of property owners on Hubbard-st.
for the establishing of curb lines was received and Engineer Landreth was
authorized to fix the lines.
On motion of Mr. Webb, seconded by Mr. Glann
and ordered carried.
Resolved, That two bonds, No.'s 1 and 2 of the denomination of $500 each be issued
over the signature of the president and clerk and corporate seal of the
village, and be placed in the hands of the village treasurer. Said bonds to be
part of the issue of $7,000 of bonds of series "A" authorized at the
last meeting of the board.
The board then went into executive session,
at which the subject of paving
Railroad-st.
between Church-st. and the D., L. & W. tracks was discussed in its relation
to the street car track.
Barbers
Change Places.
Three barbers have just made changes in
their locations. D. W. Tuttle, formerly with Peckham is now at Chadwick's
shaving parlor a the chair formerly attended by Jacob Weyand, who has a place
at Fred Ritter's. H. Paul Drexler, who was formerly with Ritter has accepted a
place with P. J. Peckham.
Fell
From the Circus Train.
W. F. Martin, a stove polisher of 42
Hubbard-st., was riding on the outside step of a car in the circus train as it
started for Syracuse Saturday night, when he was drawn between the moving car
and the edge of the freight depot platform. He dropped to the ground and lay
there unconscious until 6 o'clock Sunday morning when he was discovered crying
for help. He was removed to his home and Dr. Neary summoned. No bones were
found broken, but several bruises were found on the hips and he is suffering
some from peritonitis, but will probably recover.
BREVITIES.
—To-day is the Jewish New Year's day.
—The public schools opened to-day with a
large attendance.
—The Ladies' Literary club will meet to-morrow
(Wednesday) afternoon with Miss Roe, 77 Railroad-st.
—Mr. W. J. Greenman this morning shipped
eight pens of fancy poultry to Owego for exhibition at the Tioga county fair.
—H. W. Gazlay exhibited his Model milk
cooler at the state fair, where it attracted much attention and elicited many compliments.
—Tickets for the Misses Keyes popular
concert at the Cortland Opera House Wednesday evening. Sept. 9, now selling at
Mahan's at 25, 35, and 50 cents.
—Col. T. B. White of Syracuse will speak
upon the financial question at the farmers' picnic in Adam Petrie's grove in
Cuyler to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock.
—Mr. Wm. S. Hoxie has rented the steam mill
on Port Watson-st. and has taken possession. He has also moved his feed store
in the Squires building to the mill.
—A large number of Cortland' people,
disappointed in not seeing Barnum here Saturday, went to Syracuse yesterday to
see the show and report it as being as great as ever.
—The installation of officers of the Cortland
and Homer branch of the Woman's Fraternal league, which was recently
instituted, took place in the W. C. T. U. rooms yesterday morning.
—Five circus drunks appeared before Police
Justice Mellon yesterday morning after having sobered up over Sunday. Four of
them paid a fine of three dollars each and the other went to jail for three
days.
—The Cortland City band has been engaged to
go to Homer on Friday of this week to take part in the annual parade of the
fire department of that village. The band will also give a concert there in the
evening.
—Mrs. Sarah P. Woodward, wife of Mr. Albert
N. Woodward, died this morning at her home, 70 Lincoln-ave., of consumption. The
funeral will be held at 8 o'clock Thursday afternoon, burial in Cortland Rural
cemetery. She was 58 years of age.
—Ella Wood was arrested on Main-st. last
night on the charge of public intoxication. This morning Police Justice Mellon
sentenced her to six months in Onondaga penitentiary and she was taken there at
10 o'clock by Chief of Police Linderman.
—New advertisements to-day are—Wm. Grady,
bicycles, page 6; Warren,
Tanner
& Co., fall colors Poster gloves, page 6; C. E. Stoddard, Onondaga Savings
and Loan association, page 8; F. Daehler, biggest thing going , page 4; C. F.
Brown, amateur photography, page 7.
—Miss Lizzie Schermerhorn, aged 18 years,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.
Schermerhorn
formerly of Cortland and before that of Truxton, died Sunday at the home of her
parents. The remains will be taken to Truxton for burial on Wednesday at 2
o'clock.
—The remains of Mrs. Harriet Waters Barnum,
who died in Bellevue hospital, New York, from the effects of the heat, were
brought to the undertaking rooms of Fletcher & Bangs Sunday morning and yesterday
morning were taken to McGrawville for burial. She was a former resident of
Cortland, and was the widow of D. Barnum, once a photographer here.
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