RETURN OF THE ARCTIC EXPLORING SHIP FRAM

Fram expedition departure.

Fridtjof Nansen.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, August 21, 1896.

RETURN OF THE FRAM.

Rejoicing In Scandinavia Over the Event.

A MESSAGE FROM KING OSCAR.

Further Details of Discoveries Made in the Far North—Few Signs of Organic Life Seen in the Extremely Cold Regions.

   CHHISTIANIA, Aug. 21.—Additional details received from Skjervo regarding Dr. Nansen's Arctic exploring ship Fram are to the effect that the boat drifted from a point 85:59 degrees north. The greatest sea depth obtained by sounding was 2,185 fathoms. The lowest temperature noted was 52 degrees below zero.

   F. H. Johansen, the stoker, it is reported, had a narrow escape from a terrible death. He was attacked by a polar bear, but was rescued by Dr. Nansen who shot the animal.

   Dr. Nansen gained 22 pounds in weight on his journey to Vardo, after leaving the Fram.

   King Oscar has wired Captain Otto Sverdrup expressing sentiments of the heartiest welcome and congratulating him on the honor won for Norway. There is great enthusiasm throughout the town, bunting being everywhere displayed, the decorations in the harbor being especially fine.

   A dispatch to The Aftenposten from Skjervo says that the Fram reached open water Aug. 18. A member of the expedition expressed the opinion that the Fram would have penetrated much farther into the Arctic regions, and that perhaps the North pole would have been reached if the Fram had been frozen in east of the New Siberian islands. In the highest latitude reached, 86.15 north, members of the exploring party saw guillemots, fulmars and narwhals, but no other signs of organic life were apparent.

   Professor S. A. Andree, according to reports received here, told Captain Sverdrup, who visited the aeronaut, that it was now too late to make the proposed ascent and that he would probably soon return to Spitsbergen, and make another effort to reach the North pole in a balloon next April.

   The Fram, it is said, still has provisions capable of sustaining her crew in the Arctic regions for three years.

   Fearing that the crush of ice would wreck the ship, Captain Sverdrup and the crew were obliged, after Dr. Nansen left, to remove all the sledges, provisions, ammunition and light furniture.

Fram Reaches Tromsoe.

   TROMSOE, Norway, Aug. 21.—The Fram has arrived here. The entire town has been decorated in honor of the event and considerable enthusiasm is manifested.

Memorandum on the Cuban War.

   MADRID, Aug. 21.—Senor Sagasta, ex-prime minister of Spain, in an interview said that it was proposed to send a dispatch containing a memorandum upon the Cuban war to the United States government, but this effort failed owing to treason and treachery. He feared that President Cleveland's successor would be impelled by the force of public opinion in America to take an attitude hostile to Spain. He expressed the hope that the government would lay all of the claims for damages, because of the filibustering expeditions reported to have landed in Cuba, before the United States government.

   In conclusion, Senor Sagasta insisted that it was necessary to continue the war in Cuba in order to prove that Spain is not afraid of threats of a conflict with a greater nation.

Hoke Smith.

POLITICS AT WASHINGTON.

Campaign Committees of All Parties Actively at Work.

   WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Chairman Faulkner of the Democratic congressional campaign committee has gone to Martinsburg to participate in a meeting there. Among the callers at headquarters was Secretary Hoke Smith, who had a long conference with Chairman Faulkner and Secretary Gardner.

   The Democratic committee have decided to circulate among farmers portions of Bourke Cockran's speech, especially that referring to "professional farmers."

   The Democratic committee will publish an extract from the message of President Grant, sent to congress Jan. 14, 1875, announcing his approval of the act for the resumption of specie payment.

   The object is to show that President Grant did not know that silver had been demonetized by the act of 1873. The extract is as follows:

   "In fact to carry out the first section of the act another mint becomes a necessity. With the present facilities for coinage it would take a period probably beyond that fixed by law for final specie resumption to coin the silver necessary to transact the business of the country. There are 10 smelting furnaces for extracting the silver and gold ores brought from the mountain territories, in Chicago, St. Louis and Omaha; three in the former city and as much of the change required will be wanted in the Mississippi valley states, and as the metals to be coined came from the West, and it is understood the charges for transportation of bullion from either of the cities named to the mint in Philadelphia to New York city amount to $4 for each $1,000, with an equal expense for transportation back, it would seem a fair argument in favor of adopting one or more of those cities as the place or places for the establishment of new coining facilities."

   J. R. Sovereign, who is to be with George F. Washburn for the Populist committee in Chicago, has decided to organize a bureau and run it in connection with the campaign. He will engage a large number of speakers and send them into the doubtful states. He intends to organize Western labor men in the interest of silver.

   Mr. Sovereign expects to move the headquarters of the Knights of Labor to Chicago during the campaign and its employes [sic] will assist him.

SOUND MONEY CONVENTION.

Not Less Than Thirty-Eight States Will Be Represented.

   INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 21.—The correspondence of the National Democratic executive committee has grown to enormous proportions within the past week and the indications for a large gathering at the convention in Sept. 2 continue to grow. Chairman Bynum and his co-workers are confident that not less than thirty-eight states will be represented by full delegations and believe that the convention is likely to draw a crowd of from 5,000 to 10,000 people.

   There was much gratification expressed over the showing made by the national Democrats in New York and calling of the New York convention for Aug. 21. They are watching with much interest the state convention in Kentucky. The executive committee will hold its next full meeting at the Grand hotel in this city on Monday before the convention and the national committee will meet at the same hotel the next day to make up the temporary roll. While the appointment of temporary officers of the convention will be made by the national committee at its full meeting the executive committee will probably recommend such officers, and there is talk of appointing Bourke Cockran as temporary or permanent chairman.

   It was arranged by correspondence yesterday that both Maryland and South Carolina shall send full delegations and Mr. Bynum now believes that the only states not represented in the convention will be Idaho, Utah and Nevada, and possibly Wyoming.

GRAND EXHIBITION.

Trick and Fancy Bicycling at the Cortland Park Pavilion.

   Messrs. Harry Hitchcock and Fred Beaudry will give an exhibition of trick and fancy bicycling at the Cortland park pavilion, Saturday evening, Aug. 22, at 8 o'clock. This will be the last appearance of the two boys this season, as young Hitchcock leaves on Monday for a forty weeks' tour with a theatrical company.

   No admission fee will be charged. Every one is invited.

A Pleasant Surprise.

   A merry band of children gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Case yesterday afternoon, and gave Miss Jennie a very pleasant surprise on the occasion of her tenth birthday. Master Dwight, the twin brother of Miss Jennie, also enjoyed the presence of the little guests.

   Those present were Margaret Bump, Mabel Richards, George Lucy, Howard Long, Emma Lucy, Kate Mahar, Wallace Moshamber, Maggie Mahar, Thomas Byrn, Grace Byrn, Bertha Winters, Thomas Hookaway, Kate Hookaway, Thomas Ahern, Ethel Schouten, Frank Mahar, Lottie Clair, Kate Campion, Jossie Fitzgerald, Walter Fitzgerald, Harrison Ray, Maggie Ray, Mamie Ray, Agnes and Irene Byrn, Neal Winters, Daniel Campion, and Nettie Bump.

   Miss Jennie and Master Dwight entertained their little guests very nicely and Miss Nettie Bump and Miss Kate Mahar attended to all the wants of the little people. Many beautiful and useful presents were received by the little host and hostess.

RATS ATTACK CHILDREN.

A Whole Neighborhood Turns in to Exterminate the Rats.

   Friday night, says the Hamilton Republican, Mr. and Mrs. Linn Davis, who reside on Milford-st., were aroused from sleep by cries and screams emanating from the sleeping room of their two little daughters, Iva and Juliana, aged respectfully 8 and 3 years. The parents hastened to the room and found both little girls and their bed covered with blood and upon further investigation discovered that the children while asleep had been attacked by rats and that both girls had been quite severely bitten upon their faces, hands and wrists.

   Immediate steps were taken to remove any poisonous effects caused by the bites, and the children are now nearly recovered. It is believed that the rats had been attracted to the premises by a quantity of chicken feed which had been kept in the house and that the feed being afterwards covered in such a way as to prevent their getting at it they became famished to such an extent as to lead them to attack the children as above described.

   Fearful that the taste of human blood might cause the rats to seek for more of such food, a systematic plan for exterminating them by poison was adopted in which the whole neighborhood are interested and seems to be attended with the desired effect.

   Some years ago a similar case to the above occurred in this place on which occasion an infant was severely bitten on several occasions, the rats finally becoming so bold that they would attack the sleeping child in the day time.

BREVITIES.

   —The State-st. baseball nine will play Harry Morris' nine next Wednesday afternoon.

   —Leon Wavle of Solon was this morning operated upon for club foot at the [Cortland] hospital by the surgical staff. He is doing well.

   —New advertisements to-day are—Bacon, Chappell & Co., never before, page 5; Kellogg & Curtis, fall capes and jackets, page 6.

   —Justice Frank H. Hiscock was yesterday unanimously nominated for supreme court justice by the Republican Fifth judicial convention at Syracuse.

   —Mrs. E. W. Searles entertained a few lady friends at tea last evening at her home, 90 Maple-ave., in honor of her sister, Mrs. S. T. Frasier of Syracuse, who is her guest.

   —The Groton Journal says that Nathaniel Sperry and Mary Nichols, both of Cortland, were married at the Congregational parsonage in Groton on Tuesday, Aug. 18, by Rev. W. A. Smith.

   —A merry party of young people loaded on a bed of straw on a large hayrack, and drawn by four horses went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. B, Freeman at Blodgett Mills Wednesday night where a corn roast was enjoyed.

   —A figure 5 dropped out of the type yesterday in the advertisement of the Lehigh Valley excursion to Saratoga, making the rate so remarkably cheap that many inquiries were made about it. The figure has been replaced and the advertisement appears in another column. The correct rate is $5.96.

   —Two large carryalls, one drawn by four horses and the other by two, left

Cortland at 9 o'clock this morning for Tully Lake park, carrying members of the Loyal Temperance legion, and several members of the W. C. T. U. This is W. C.T. T. day at the Assembly. Others went by private conveyances, and still others by railroad.

   —As noted in the dispatches in The STANDARD yesterday Mr. I. H. Palmer has been appointed state committeeman for Cortland county of the Democratic party reform organization which is to hold a sound-money convention at Syracuse on Aug. 31. Mr. Palmer is hard at work and is taking steps to see to it that Cortland county is represented at the convention by three delegates.

   —Nine carloads of excursionists, 350 people in all, from Elmira and other points along the line of the D., L. & W. railroad passed through Cortland yesterday en route to Syracuse and Pleasant Beach. The excursion was run under the auspices of George M. Hallstead Lodge, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of Elmira, and on the front of the engine drawing the excursion train was a large picture of Mr. Hallstead, after whom the order was named. The engine was literally covered with flags and bunting, and some of the cars were also decorated.

McGRAWVILLE.

Crisp local Happenings at the Corset City.

   Dr. E. D. Allen of Dryden was called to this place Thursday in consultation with Dr. Ensign.

   The ball game for Saturday with Dryden will not be played as expected, as Ithaca will play in Dryden.

   Capt. Hall of the Crusaders was in town Thursday evening and took charge of the meeting, A large number were present. Meeting this evening as usual.

   Mr. Ernest Corwin of Freetown was in town Thursday.

   Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Bush of Taylor Centre are guests at Leander Pudney's.

   Mrs. Albert Harvey and daughters Maude and Pearl are visiting in Cincinnatus.

  Mr. I. M. Seaman of Cortland was in town on business Thursday.

   The residence of Mrs. Eliza Hicks on Elm-st. is being repainted.

   "The Millionaire's Wife" was presented at the opera house Thursday evening to a small house. The company did even better if possible than at the previous production and if the surplus in the individual treasuries in town had not been so low a crowded house would have greeted the company. Quite a number from Cortland were present.

   A large number of the Hammond family went to Cortland this morning where the Hammond annual picnic is being held on the pleasant grounds of Captain J. W. Strowbridge.

   The M. E. Sunday-schools of this place and Blodgett Mills are holding a picnic to-day in the Wellington grove west of this village.

   The Freetown baseball club, accompanied by every one in Freetown and

Texas Valley who are interested in baseball, came to this place Thursday to witness the slaughter of the Ponies. The latter were without their regular battery as Pitcher Evans was away and Catcher Waters was disabled by a broken finger and consequently they were prepared for the sacrifice, but things are not always as they seem, for the Ponies have a captain in George Pudney, who while one of the most quiet and modest of fellows, plays ball sometimes when necessary. He was suffering with a lame shoulder, but the quiet smile on his face when he finally consented to go into the box. [It] was the first encouragement the home team received for the odds were all against them. The "pet cyclone" of the Ponies stuck it through the game although suffering like a martyr and in the first, third, fifth and eighth innings did not let a man get to first base. Freetown in desperation tried several men in the [pitcher’s] box, but even Hurricane Crandall of Texas Valley only stayed for one inning. The Freetown club consisted of B. Pickert, Doran, Lanpher, J. McMann, P. McMann, Crandall, Lonsbury, Glover and Smith, while the home team was Steve Waters, A. W. Chapin, Clyde Beers, H. Masten, E. F. Kinney, Arlie Ensign, Elmer Chapin, George Pudney and Glen McElheny. The score by innings was:

   And this tells the rest of the story. The [return] game will be played in Freetown next Thursday.