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| George W. Melville. |
UNITED STATES WARSHIPS.
Report
on Their Condition Made by Commodore Melville.
WASHINGTON, NOV. 20.—The report of Commodore Melville, chief engineer of the navy, gives a detailed statement of the
condition of all warships so far as their machinery and mechanical apparatus
are concerned.
As a whole it shows that all the modern
ships are in good condition, except in a few instances, in which machinery is
being overhauled.
The old time ships are as usual reported as
antiquated, but most of them are said to be serviceable, considering their age.
The report shows during the year the bureau
has prepared plans and specifications for the machinery of battleships Nos. 5,
6, 7, 8 and 9, for the Hartford and for tug No. 6 for the League Island navy
yard and plans for the machinery of the 20-knot and 22-knot torpedo boats and
for a re-arrangement of the machinery of the Atlanta, due to the fitting of new
boilers in that vessel.
Work at the New York navy yard on the new
machinery for the Chicago is progressing as rapidly as the appropriation for
that purpose will permit.
Cuban
Refugee Reaches New York.
NEW YORK, NOV. 20.—Manuel M. Coronado, the editor
of the Cuban patriot newspaper La Discusion, published in Havana, who escaped
from that city in the last days of October after General Weyler had ordered
his arrest, has reached New York. He went to the home of his brother, Francisco
Coronado, and afterward engaged rooms at the Colonial hotel. He brought with
him important news for the junta in this city.
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| William McKinley. |
EVENTS
AT CANTON.
McKinley
Receives a Few Visitors, Many Letters and a Queer Present.
CANTON, O., Nov. 20.—Major and Mrs. McKinley
did not go for their usual drive, a sudden change in the temperature making
outdoor recreation too uninviting. The day was given over entirely by Mr.
McKinley to his letters and papers and in receiving friends and neighbors and
an occasional visitor from out of town. Charles Holbrook of the West Virginia
Coal company of Philadelphia called and Colonel George Hay of Coshocton, O.,
was among the visitors.
A great squash that filled a bushel basket
was another present received. It is a gift from Colonel Charles Worker of
Blaine precinct, Pierce county, Neb. Accompanying the squash was a clipping
from the Pierce County Call which explained that the squash had been grown in
the only precinct in Pierce county which gave Major McKinley a majority. A
verse was scratched on the squash, the last line of which read:
Early in November I shall make McKinley
pies.
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| Rev. Anna Howard Shaw. |
Woman
Suffrage Convention.
ROCHESTER, NOV. 20.—The introductory address
at the Woman Suffrage convention was by Mrs. Harriet A. Mills of Syracuse, who
spoke of the campaign in behalf of the suffrage amendment, which had recently
been waged in California. She was followed by Mrs. Harriet A. Keyser of New
York. The closing address was made by Rev. Anna Howard Shaw.
Roasting
a Lawyer.
Since the order was issued by County Judge
Ross of Onondaga Co., committing Attorney E. N. Wilson of Syracuse to jail for
two days for contempt of court, Mr. Wilson's brother attorneys have been having
a large amount of fun at his expense. The Syracuse Standard says:
To be committed for contempt of court is not
a joke for Attorney E. N.
Wilson,
although some of his friends treat it as such and even he himself passes
remarks made about Judge Ross's orders to that effect with a smiling face and
witty repartee. In spite of its seriousness there were many almost laughable
things which turned up yesterday in connection with the affair.
Early yesterday Mr. Wilson received a telegram
from an attorney friend in Cortland, addressed to the county jail, asking if he
wanted money, bail, pipes, or tobacco. Another message expressed condolence for
the loss of his hair and moustache. By the number of offers of cigars and
dainty viands it would appear that by two days' confinement Mr. Wilson will be
supplied for several years to come.
The "attorney friend in Cortland"
referred to is Mr. John Courtney, Jr., and the telegram he sent was as follows:
CORTLAND, N. Y., NOV. 19th.
To E. N. Wilson, Esq., County Jail, Syracuse,
N. Y.:
Do you want money, bail, pipes or tobacco?
Answer quick.
JOHN COURTNEY.
Another telegram still informed Mr. Wilson
that his misfortune was due to his being a bachelor and advised him to guard
against further trouble of the same kind by marrying, which would calm his
spirits and sweeten his temper, so that presumably he would not show contempt
for any one—least of all a court of justice.
The fun continues, but the question still
remains whether the judge will relent or the learned counsel have two days free
board at the expense of the county.
USE OF
THE NAME "COLLEGE."
Important
Ordinances Adopted by the State Regents.
At a recent meeting of the regents the
following important ordinances unanimously recommended by the college council
were adopted:
1—An institution to be ranked as a college
must have at least six professors giving their entire time to college and
university work and a course of four full years of college grade in liberal
arts and sciences, and must require for admission four years of academic or
high school preparation in addition to the pre-academic or grammar school
studies.
2—The law prohibiting the unauthorized use
of the names college and university shall hereafter be strictly enforced.
3—Business, short hand, typewriting and
similar schools shall not be permitted after January 1, 1897, to use the name
college or university; but pending the conference with the committee already
appointed by the business schools, permission to continue the use of the name
till January 1, 1898, shall be granted to such schools as are registered by the
regents.
4—The degrees B. A. or A. B. and Ph.D.,
shall not be conferred cause honoris after January 1, 1897.
5—No degree shall be conferred after January
1, 1900, on the completion of a course of study or on examination unless the
candidate has as a preliminary general education, at least a four year high
school course or its full equivalent, as determined by the rules of the
regents.
6—No diploma shall be conferred which does
not represent after Jan. 1, 1897, at least three years, and after Jan, 1, 1900,
four years or their equivalent of work of a grade above the elementary or
grammar schools.
HUNGARIANS
IN A ROW.
One of
Them Charges Two Others with Grand Larceny.
A small riot occurred last night among the
Hungarians occupying a house on Excelsior-st. resulting in a general battering
up of heads. This morning George Boblink came before [Cortland] Police Justice Mellon and
swore out a warrant charging John Moley and George Sech with grand larceny in
the first degree in stealing a watch and four dollars in money which he lost in
the fracas.
The two accused were arrested at noon by
Chief Linderman and at 2:30 this afternoon were brought up in police court.
Boblink and Sech bore sorry looking faces. They can speak very little English
and so the case was put over until Monday at 10 o'clock A. M., when an
interpreter will probably be present.
BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS.
Tenth
Day, Thursday, Nov. 19.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The board convened at the usual time and the
afternoon was taken up with committee work, and at 4:30 P. M. adjourned until 7 P. M.
EVENING SESSION.
The board convened at 7 P. M.
Mr. Childs, chairman of the committee on
equalization, presented the following report signed by six members of the
committee, Mr. Smith declining to sign, which report under the rules was laid
over until to-morrow.
The special order of the evening, the resolution
of Mr. Holton offered Wednesday that from and after Jan. 1, 1897, each town
shall support and maintain its own poor, was taken up. The superintendent of
the poor was called upon to present any facts in his possession upon the
subject, which he proceeded to do in detail. An extended discussion of the
subject followed, in which nearly all the members of the board participated,
and in which all the arguments heretofore advanced were reiterated and others
presented. When the question was finally called Mr. Childs asked for the ayes
and nays. The clerk proceeded to call the roll. The result was as follows:
Ayes—Messrs. Corning, Lee, Tuttle, Surdam,
Bingham, Delong, Holton, Greene—8.
Nays—Messrs. Smith, Brown, Hammond, Childs,
O'Donnell, Crane—6.
Absent—Mr. Hunt.
The statue requires the vote of two-thirds
of the members elected to the board to carry, consequently the chair declared
the resolution lost.
At 8:20 P. M., on motion of Mr. Brown, the board
adjourned until to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.
Eleventh
Day, Friday, Nov. 20.
The board convened at 9 A. M. and was called
to order by the chairman. The rollcall showed a quorum present. The journal of
yesterday was read and approved.
The clerk read the following designations of
newspapers to publish the session laws for the ensuing year, and the same were
ordered placed on file:
We, the undersigned Republican members of
the board of supervisors of Cortland county, do hereby, in accordance with
Chapter 715, Laws of 1892, designate the Cortland Semi-Weekly STANDARD,
published by the Cortland Standard Printing Co., as the paper fairly
representing the Republican party to publish the session laws for the ensuing
year.
R. B. SMITH,
W. H. CRANE,
B. F. LEE,
H. Z. TUTTLE,
E. W. CHILDS,
J. HARRIS HAMMOND,
W. H. DELONG,
B. R. CORNING,
J. G. BINGHAM,
F. M. SURDAM,
J. H. BROWN.
We, the undersigned Democratic members of the
board of supervisors of Cortland county, do hereby in accordance with Chapter
715, Laws of 1892, designate the Cortland Democrat, published by Benton B.
Jones, as the paper fairly representing the Democratic party to publish the
session laws for the ensuing year:
W. A. HOLTON,
JOHN O'DONNELL,
H. O. HUNT,
JEFFERSON GREENE.
Mr. Lee, chairman of the committee on
settling with the county clerk and sheriff, presented the following report
which was referred to the committee on appropriations:
Mr.
Brown, chairman of the committee on erroneous assessments, presented the report
of the committee which was accepted and ordered placed on file.
The resolution of Mr. O'Donnell regarding
compensation of the sheriff for board of prisoners, which had been laid over by
request, was taken up and passed.
On motion of Mr. Bingham:
Resolved, That the sum of $19.25 be levied and collected from District No. 39 of the
town of Solon for the payment on purchase money for one road machine, and that
the money be paid to the highway commissioner of said town to pay on note held
in payment for said machine.
On motion of Mr. Surdam:
Resolved, That the sum of $12.25 be levied on the taxable property of the town of
Lapeer to reimburse to Mrs. T. A. Price a tax erroneously collected from her in
1895, and that the clerk of this board be directed to add the same to the
abstract of said town and draw an order to Mrs. T. A. Price for the same.
On motion of Mr. Bingham:
Resolved, That E. A. Williams be and is hereby appointed sealer of weights and
measures for the ensuing year.
On motion of Mr. Lee:
WHEREAS, The county treasurer has called my
attention to the fact that he holds an order on the supervisor of the town of
Cuyler in the year 1892, and in the sum of $17.57 and that the same has not
been paid and is now due him, therefore be it
Resolved, That this board direct that the clerk add the same to the abstract of aforesaid
town.
On motion of Mr. Corning:
Resolved, That when this board adjourns Saturday it be until 11:30 P. M. on Monday,
Dec. 7.
On motion of Mr. Smith:
Resolved, That the supervisor of the town of Cortlandville be permitted to add to
the abstract of said town the following accounts, the same being properly
verified, but not presented to the town board for audit: J. Edward Banta $6, John H. Phelps $9, J. W.
Keese $3 for services as excise commissioners; also the account of C. S. Baker,
$8.41; and bill of J. D. F. Woolston of $13 for services by direction of town
board of said town.
On motion of Mr. DeLong:
Resolved, That the supervisor of the town of Taylor be authorized to add to the
assessment roll of said town the uncollected return tax of 1895.
On motion of Mr. DeLong:
Resolved, That the compensation of the janitor be fixed for this session at the sum
of $40 and the clerk be authorized to draw at the close of this session an order
on the county treasurer for the same.
BREVITIES.
—Another suggestion of a good name for Railroad-st.
if changed is Lackawanna-ave.
—New advertisements to-day are—H. G. Stone,
Corsets, page 6; Bingham Bros. & Miller, Platform, page 8; F. B. Nourse, Confidence,
page 4; Living Age, page 6.
—An exchange says: "There is no insect
that will eat either root or stock of buckwheat, and sowing it on any piece of
ground two years in succession will kill wire worms by furnishing them with nothing
to eat.
—A time clock has been received at the
postoffice and will soon be set up and ready for use. Its purpose is that each carrier
shall record his time on leaving the postoffice on a delivery trip and his time
in returning.
—"Ian Maclaren," whose recent
lecture at Syracuse was attended by a number of Cortland people, sails for home
early next month, and will carry $25,000 of good American money home with him
as the result of his lecturing tour. America is the place where foreign authors
make their fortunes.
RETAIL
CLERKS ORGANIZE.
Association
No. 174, Now a Permanent Institution.
The retail clerks met at 8:30 o'clock last
night in Empire hall and permanently organized the Retail Clerks' association,
No. 174, of Cortland. Permanent officers were elected as follows:
President—S. P. Bloomfield.
First Vice-President—M. H. Keiley.
Second Vice-President—W. M. Farrell.
Recording Secretary—D. M. Roche.
Financial Secretary—E. B. Cummings.
Treasurer—Charles Morris.
Representative t o the Trades Assembly—S. P.
Bloomfield, M. H. Keiley, Harry Chapin.
The local branch has nineteen charter
members and any others who may wish to join may make application to any of the
officers. The association is for mutual benefit and has insurance and sick
benefit features. The next meeting will be held Dec. 8.
Cortland
Branch of the Master Barbers' Protective Association.
Last evening ten of the boss barbers of
Cortland met in the parlors of T. P. Button for the purpose of organizing
permanently the Cortland branch of the Master Barbers' Protective association of
the state of New York.
The following officers were elected:
President—Hiram Banks.
Vice-President—T. P. Button.
Secretary—P. J. Peckham.
Treasurer—F. H. Ritter.
The following address was issued, which
explains the objects of the association:
To the General Public:
This association has been organized for the purpose
of giving protection to all. We have been hampered and hindered for years by incompetent
people working at our profession. All trades of any account as well as
professions are protected against inferior workmen. Up to the present time the
barber's profession has not been protected. We consider the barber's profession
one of the most important to the health of the general public, but at the
present time any person, whether he has had any experience, or not, may follow
the barber's profession. We condemn this system from a sanitary as well as a practical
standpoint. Incompetent, as well as drunken barbers are allowed to impose upon
the public unmolested. People have been inoculated with vile skin diseases
which in many cases have baffled the skill of physicians and we claim that the
public should be protected from these impositions.
We condemn the so-called "Barbers' Colleges,"
which advertise to teach the trade in the short period of night weeks as an imposition
upon the public. Incompetent barbers are turned out in consequence and the
country is overrun with them to the danger of the public. We claim that persons
wishing to follow the barber's profession should be examined by competent
examiners before they are allowed to practice and if they are found incompetent
they should not be allowed to impose upon the public. We call upon the public
to assist us in this movement, and use all their influence in the lead to secure
the passing of a bill that will remedy this evil.
P. J. PECKHAM, Secretary.
P. J. PECKHAM, Secretary.
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