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| USS Minneapolis. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Wednesday, November 11, 1896.
OUTWITTED THE TURKS.
Armenian Refugees Rescued From Assassins.
PROTECTION FROM AMERICANS.
Victims Took Refuge on a British Ship, and
Admiral Selfridge Saw Her Safely Out of the Harbor In Defiance of Turkey.
NEW YORK,
NOV. 11.—The World today publishes the following:
The
steamship Boyne of the Mercantile Steamship company of London arrived in port
on Friday last from Gibraltar and Mediterranean ports. Captain Fischer has told
a remarkable story to Collector of the Port Kilbreth, Law Officer Phelps and Special
Deputy Naval Officer Gourley of the customs department as to why he had entered
port without a manifest.
The
British steamship Boyne lay at anchor off Smyrna, Turkey, in Asia, on Oct. 10.
There had been several riots in Smyrna for three or four days before.
The din
of another conflict reached the ears of the Boyne's captain about 7 o'clock in
the evening, and the cries of the victims of the assassins came over the
waters. An hour afterwards a small boat came up the side of the British
steamship, and an aged man begged permission to go aboard. With him were six
others, three of them women, all Armenian refugees.
Captain
Fischer assented. He fed them, cared for them and gave them the protection of
his flag.
Fischer
said he was bound for America and in order to be on the safe side the refugees
were registered as passengers.
Not long
afterwards a boat load of Turks, under an officer, rowed up alongside and the
forces came aboard.
Captain
Fischer admitted that he had refugees on his ship, but refused to deliver them
over. He drew up his crew of brawny men and the Turkish officer said he would
give the Britisher until the morning to turn over the Armenians.
After the
Turks had left his vessel Captain Fisher manned a boat and moved stealthily
from the ship to secure assistance. He visited an Italian man-of-war, but the
commander denied his right to interfere.
When dawn
came the Minneapolis appeared. Captain Fischer told his story, and Admiral
Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr., the commander, said:
"We'll
give you all the assistance you want. You'll take these refugees safely out of
this port if I've got to bombard the town."
And the
admiral ordered off the barge with a detail of marine and blue jackets over to
the British ship with orders to hold her safe from attack.
Then the
American consul was sent for, and it was agreed that the Boyne should sail at
once under the escort of the Minneapolis.
The Armenians
have just been landed on Ellis island.
Canal Contracts Awarded.
ALBANY,
Nov. 11.—Superintendent of Public Works G. W. Aldridge has awarded another
batch of contracts for the improvement of canals, under the $9,000,000 canal
improvement act. The contracts are 15 in number and call for an expenditure of
$961,309. This makes about $3,400,000 worth of contracts let within a month.
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| Richard L. Garner. |
PROFESSOR GARNER DENOUNCED.
His Monkey Language Pronounced a Fraud by
London Truth.
LONDON,
Nov. 11.—Truth has an article covering a page and a half headed "The
Munchhausen of Monkeyland," dealing with Professor Garner, who claims to
have distinguished words in a monkey language, and his book, repeating the old charges
made by Truth of imposture and declaring that the whole story of Professor Garner's
adventures among the gorillas is an impudent humbug.
The
article suggests that the French missionaries at Fernanvez, to whom it alleges Professor
Garner gave a promissory note for 500 francs for board and lodging, should sign
a judgment in England on the unpaid bill and should attach the proceeds of his
book.
Truth concludes
that this would set at rest forever the question of where Professor Garner
really spent those hundred days and nights.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Social
Discontent.
A writer in the Boston Globe gives it as his
judgment that social discontent rather than actual want is the controlling
cause of much of the prevailing dissatisfaction among the rural inhabitants of
the country.
If this is true, the writer in the Boston
Globe could not have paid the rural population of the United States a higher
compliment. The upward process of civilization is like this—first
dissatisfaction, then aspiration, then attainment. The most
contented people on the globe today are savages that bask in the sun naked and
knock breadfruit off the trees when they are hungry.
It is to be hoped that most of the farmers
and working people of the United States have food and shelter today, such as
the food and shelter are. But, when they see among the families of the rich a
luxury, a daintiness and refinement, a leisure for travel, enjoyment and
intellectual and artistic culture that are denied to them, are they to blame
because, like cattle, they do not lie down and chew the cud of contentment when
they have merely full stomachs? It is not
a peevish dissatisfaction they feel, but a worthy aspiration.
No; the people whose toil produces the bread
and meat, the cloth, the newspapers, the furniture, the luxuries, for the rest
of the world are entitled to their share, if their work is faithful, of all
that is best, richest and most beautiful in this life. When the conditions of
civilization are peaceably and equitably adjusted, as they can be and will be
some day, the farmer, and the mechanic, and their families, will likewise have
their beautiful and artistic homes, their elegant clothing, their trips of
travel and changing scene, their hours of abundant rest and leisure.
And the surest proof that this time is bound
to come is the fact of the noble discontent with present unequal conditions.
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It is a sufficiently well
authenticated fact that Melquizo's soldiers in Cuba shot and killed four women,
if not more, in the later engagements. The women would not reveal to them where
Maceo was, and in revenge were slain. With them was a little child that was either
left by the soldiers to perish in the woods or killed. This is Spanish warfare,
the butchery of women and children, yet neither the United States nor any other
civilized nation interferes to stop it.
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Nothing could be better than the
selection of Washington as a center for educational institutions. Such rich
treasures of science, industry and art as students will have the advantage of
are to be found nowhere else. Among the places which will give object lessons
to the young minds are the Smithsonian, the Botanic gardens, the Zoological
park, the arsenal and the offices of the surveys, while congress—well, yes,
congress will afford an object lesson too.
◘
The story of Rambusch, the
defaulting banker and suicide of Juneau, Wis., is a singular illustration of
the fact that common rogues and swindlers never die worth any money. Sometimes
bank robbers and forgers have stolen money to the amount of almost $1,000,000,
yet they end their lives in the penitentiary or poorhouse at last. The ability
to steal is not accompanied by the talent necessary to keep the stealings,
except in the case of very high up and respectable financiers, who operate in a
different way from the common thief. Rambusch had been altering checks and making
fictitious mortgages for 20 years. It is known that he stole at least $250,000,
yet all his assets amount only to $25,000. He could have amassed four times
that by simple, plain, honest dealing in the 20 years in which he was a banker and
real estate agent.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Third Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11.
The board was
called to order at 9
o'clock by Chairman Crane. At roll call a quorum were present. The journal of
the previous day was read and approved.
The clerk read a
communication from the state prison commission containing a report of the visit
on August 28, to the Cortland county jail of Prison Commissioner Mantanye in
which certain improvements were recommended. The full report of Commissioner
Mantanye was published in these columns at the time that it was submitted to the
commission. The communication was referred to the committee on courthouse and
jail.
The clerk read a
communication from the grand jury of Cortland county which recommended similar
improvements upon the jail to those suggested by the prison commissioners. This
communication was also referred to the committee on courthouse and jail.
The clerk read a
communication from the grand jury of Cortland county in which the request was
made that a room at the courthouse should be provided in which the stenographer
employed by the grand jury and the witnesses in attendance could wait while
awaiting the action of the grand jury. The communication was referred to
Messrs. Crane and Smith.
Several
communications asking for corrections in the assessment rolls of the respective
towns were read and referred to the committee on erroneous assessments.
On motion of Mr.
Hammond:
Resolved, That
the order of business of last year's session be the order for this year.
On motion of Mr.
O'Donnell:
Resolved, That
the chairman of committee having accounts against the county for audit in favor
of parties from the several towns shall confer with the supervisors from said
towns before their accounts are audited at a less amount than claimed, and when
the parties are non-residents of the county they shall be notified before their
accounts are audited at a less amount than claimed in their bills.
The clerk read a
communication from the state comptroller from which it appeared that the total
valuation of property in Cortland county is $10,106,000, upon which a state tax
of $27,185.14 must be levied for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1896, at the
rate of 2.69 mills on the dollar. These taxes are divided as follows: For
schools, $9,398.58; for state care of insane, $10,106; for general purposes and
for canals, $7,680.56. Cortland county is also required to raise by tax the sum
of $392.32, its share of the compensation of the stenographers of the supreme
court in the Sixth judicial district.
The clerk also read
a communication from Onondaga penitentiary which included a bill of $398.43 for
the board and care of twenty-one prisoners sentenced from Cortland county.
Referred to the committee on appropriations.
The clerk read a
communication from Craig colony, Sonyea, N, Y., enclosing a bill of $15.89 for
clothing for an inmate confined there from Cortland county. Referred to the
committee on appropriations.
The clerk read a
communication from the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble Minded Children
enclosing a bill of $40 for the care of two Cortland county children for one
year. Referred to the committee on appropriations.
The clerk read a
communication from LeCouteuir St. Mary's institution for the improved instruction
of deaf mutes, Buffalo, enclosing a bill of $275 for the care of one patient
from Cortland county for one year. Referred to the committee on appropriations.
The clerk read a
communication from the Matteawan State hospital at Fishkill Landing, N. Y., enclosing a bill of $195 for the care of one
patient from Cortland county for a year. Referred to the committee on
appropriations.
On motion of Mr.
Lee, the chairman and clerk of the board were made a committee to execute a
proper contract with the superintendent of the Onondaga penitentiary for the
ensuing year.
On motion of Mr. Childs, the
board adjourned till 1 P. M. for the purpose of reconvening at once in the
county clerk's office to complete their duties as a hoard of county canvassers.
The board met at 1
o'clock in the afternoon when a few items were on motion added to the abstracts
of the towns of Cuyler, Virgil, Willet, Truxton, Harford and Lapeer.
On motion of Mr.
Bingham:
Resolved, That
the chair appoint a committee of two to investigate the probable cost of
placing at such location in the supervisors' rooms as the board shall direct, a
water closet for the use of the board, and report at their earliest convenience.
The chair appointed
Messrs. Bingham and O'Donnell.
The board then
engaged in committee work.
Police Court.
Two tramps were
brought before Police Justice Mellon this morning. A description of them was
taken and they were allowed to proceed on their way. They gave their names as
James Ranney of Chicago and Frank McGraw of Tiflin, O.
George Lindsley
pleaded guilty to the charge of public intoxication and paid a fine of $3.
Barbers Organize.
A meeting of the
boss barbers of Cortland was held last evening at the shop of Thomas P. Button.
F. H. Bitter was chosen chairman and D. J. Chadwick secretary. The meeting was
called for the purpose of organizing a barbers' protective association, the
object of which is to secure legislation against incompetent barbers and
so-called barbers' colleges, o that no barber can manage or be proprietor of a
shop without first passing an examination before a competent board of
examiners.
F. H. Ritter was
elected delegate to the state convention to be held at Syracuse Nov. 17, and T. P. Button alternate. The meeting adjourned
to Nov. 19 at 8:30 P. M. at Mr. Button's shop.
BREVITIES.
—There will be a special meeting of the directors
of the Tioughnioga club this evening at 8 o'clock.
—Prof. Welland Hendrick will conduct a
teachers' institute at Churchville, Monroe county, Nov. 16 to 20.
—New advertisements to-day are—C. F. Brown,
Baby Fixings, page 6; Kellogg & Curtis, Great
Special Sale, page 6.
—Rev. D. H. Edwards has authorized Samuel
Bolden to collect money due for the use of Collins hall for church purposes.
—The Retail Clerks' association will meet
to-morrow night at 8:30 o'clock in the hall in the Martin building for the purpose
of further organization.
—The last brick on the Railroad-st. pavement
was laid yesterday and to-day the last of the cement was put on. The street
will be opened up for travel in a few days.
—Mr. Charles Munson, while working in the
woods Monday accidentally cut his right foot with an ax. The wound was dressed
by Dr. Higgins. It will probably lay him up for several days.
—Eugene Harrington, an employee at the Howe
Ventilating stove works, received injuries on both of his hands on the palms
Wednesday by a flying piece of wire which will cause them to be quite sore for
a time.
—Charles Kelly, the young man whose left arm
was removed at the hospital Friday as the result
of being caught in the shafting at the Wickwire mills last Wednesday, is slowly
gaining strength and his recovery is looked for.
—Mrs. F. S. Todd was surprised by a number
of her friends at her home, 38 Railway-ave., on Tuesday evening in honor of her
birthday. A very pleasant evening was spent and a handsome water set was left
as a token of remembrance.
—Mr. Herman Cooper of 30 1/2 Railway-ave. was
surprised last night by a visit of about twenty-five of his friends, members of
the S. O. V. and others. A very pleasant social evening was passed,
refreshments were served and there was music by Swan Brothers' orchestra.
—Mr. Charles H. Drake informs as that the
report that he is to organize a record company in Oneonta similar to the one with
which he was connected in Cortland is a mistake. He may go on the road for an
Oneonta party, but he does not now anticipate moving his residence from Cortland.
—At about 6 o'clock last night while
the chicken pie supper at the Congregational church was in progress, some
children at play overturned a lamp in a room at the rear of the auditorium, but
the lamp was hurled out of a window before any damage was done beyond burning two
small holes in the carpet.
—A special meeting of the C. M. B. A. will
be held to-night at 7:30 o'clock for the purpose of arranging to attend the funeral
of Frank Johnson of Homer, a member of the organization, who died last evening
and whose funeral will be held from St, Mary's church at 10 o'clock to-morrow
morning.
—Michael Nix of the East Cortland House
reported to the police this morning the loss yesterday of $200 while he and
Mrs. Nix were away during the afternoon. Entrance was gained through a window
and the money taken from a tin box. The police are working on the case to find
some clue and bring the perpetrator to justice.
—A reporter for the Ithaca News was present
Monday night at the final rehearsal of the Ithaca band before the grand concert
which was given last night, and he says: "Mr. Fred I. Graham of Cortland
was there and played his saxophone solo to the delight and surprise of the
trained musicians who accompanied him. It was as Conway said, 'Great! Out of
sight.'"
